The character who personifies all that is wrong with Dynmouth, a character almost spewed up by the town, is 15-year-old Timothy Gedge. The atmosphere is so fetid that the foul fumes almost rise off the page. Added to this the populace of Dynmouth stew in a rancid media environment of trashy films, TV game shows and newspaper reports featuring horrid and perverted murders. There are unhappy marriages, wives driven mad, secretly gay husbands, adultery, you name it. If Freud had visited the town he would have been kept busy with at least a dozen case studies. Underneath, however, its a hotbed of barely contained scandal, misery and sexual repression. On the surface its a pretty place where the residents derive a certain amount of contentment from their uneventful yet sturdy lives. William Trevor’s 1976 novel paints a squalid picture of contemporary British life.ĭynmouth is a quaint seaside town featuring lace windowed tea shops, community fetes, a church and a local cinema.
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