Description
<p>Professor Frederick Lothian retired engineer world expert on concrete and connoisseur of modernist design has quarantined himself from life by moving to a retirement village. Surrounded and obstructed by the debris of his life he is determined to be miserable but is tired of his existence and of the life he has chosen.</p><p>When a series of unfortunate incidents forces him and his neighbour Jan together he begins to realise the damage done by the accumulation of a lifetime's secrets and lies and to comprehend his own shortcomings. Finally Frederick Lothian has the opportunity to build something meaningful for the ones he loves.</p><p>Humorous poignant and galvanising this is a novel about all kinds of extinction - natural racial national and personal - and what we can do to prevent them.</p>>

