Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
A rollicking novel with a dark undertow, set around three unforgettable individuals and a doomed movie set--from the award-winning, best-selling author of Any Human Heart A producer. A novelist. An actress. It's summer 1968--a time of war and assassinations, protests and riots. While the world is reeling, our trio is involved in making a disaster-plagued, Swingin' Sixties British movie in sunny Brighton. All are leading secret lives. As the movie shoot zigs and zags, these layers of secrets become increasingly more untenable. Pressures build inexorably. The FBI and CIA get involved. Someone is going to crack--or maybe they all will. From one of Britain's best loved writers comes an exhilarating, tender novel--by turns hilarious and heartbreaking--that asks the vital questions: What makes life worth living? And what do you do if you find it isn't?
Synopsis
It's summer 1968, and the world is reeling from war and assassinations, protests and riots. In a sunny British seaside town, a producer, a novelist, and an actress are enduring their own more private crises on the set of a disaster-plagued movie. All are leading secret lives--one is in the closet; another is an alcoholic; and the third is sleeping with her costar--and as the shoot zigs and zags, these layers of secrets become increasingly more untenable. Pressures build inexorably--and that's before the FBI and CIA get involved. Someone is going to crack--or maybe they all will. By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, Trio is an enthralling novel that asks the vital questions: What makes life worth living? And what do you do if you find it isn't?