East Fortune

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The boy stepped out into the road. He stretched his arms outand his legs apart, making an X, palms facing the windscreen, the handswith a slight tremor that Jack only remembered later. His face had aquestioning look that asked 'Why are you doing this to me?' Jack has been sleepwalking through his middle age. His wife hasleft him, his grown-up daughters no longer need him, and he rarelyleaves his remote house on the east coast of Scotland. But when he isinvolved in an horrific accident, he is jolted out of his stupor, andembarks upon a new friendship that helps him to re-evaluate everything.Douglas is on the early morning Eurostar to Paris to have lunchwith a woman he barely knows. Despite his responsibilities to family, work and friends, he is determined to risk everything for his obsessionwith a stranger.Angus is fifty-four. He has always prided himself on his happymarriage, his reliable car, his nice house, his stable career: thereare no nasty surprises. But when a man thirty years his junior takeshim to a stuffy room and tells him he no longer has a job, he findshimself suddenly in freefall. As a man without a profession, how doeshe now define himself? As the three Henderson brothers head to their big childhood homein East Fortune for their annual summer gathering, they steelthemselves against sibling rivalry, parental expectation and thevulnerability that comes with being with those who know you best.Intense, humane, humorous and subtle, East Fortune is a moving story about lives at the crossroads, about life and love, chance and hope - and how families survive.