PICTURE BOOK

SET AGAINST THE ROLLING BACKDROP OF A CENTURY OF BRITISH HISTORY FROM WWI TO THE 'WAR ON TERROR', THIS IS A FAMILY PORTRAIT CAPTURED IN SNAPSHOTS. FIRST THERE IS WILLIAM, THE FACTORY LAD WHO LOSES HIS LIFE IN GALLIPOLI, THEN HIS SON BILLY, A CHAMPION CYCLIST WHO SURVIVES THE D-DAY LANDINGS ON A MILITARY BICYCLE, FOLLOWED BY HIS CRIPPLED SON WILL WHO BECOMES AN OXFORD ACADEMIC IN THE 1960S, AND FINALLY HIS DAUGHTER BILLIE, AN ARTIST IN CONTEMPORARY LONDON. JUST AS THE NAMES - WILLIAM, BILLY, WILL, BILLIE - ECHO DOWN THROUGH THE FAMILY, SO TOO THE LEGACY OF CHOICES MADE, CHANCES LOST, AND SECRETS KEPT. RICH IN DRAMA AND SENSUOUS IN DETAIL, "THE PICTURE BOOK" IS A BEAUTIFULLY CRAFTED STORY ABOUT FATHERS AND SONS, ABOUT FATE AND REPETITION, AND ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF BREAKING FREE.