Mr. Tumnal: 1 (Imaginary Friends)

Everyone has an imaginary friend. Rarely do they marry their imaginary friend. Only one has ever had their imaginary family become real. Lewis Tumnal is a teacher of English at the county school. Quiet and uncomplicated he lives in a big Edwardian house in the north of Wren Hoe with his wife and a daughter of eleven years.But Lewis Tumnal and his family are the imaginary lives of Louis Tumnal a withdrawn and lonely bachelor ill at ease with himself and in social situations. With few friends he goes to a night class in photography which he loves but he keeps himself very much to himself. That is until he meets Kathryn...