The Book and the Brotherhood

<b>A story about love and friendship and Marxism</b> <p/>Many years ago Gerard Hernshaw and his friends commissioned one of their number to write a political book. <p/>Time passes and opinions change. Why should we go on supporting a book which we detest? Rose Curtland asks. The brotherhood of Western intellectuals versus the book of history Jenkin Riderhood suggests. The theft of a wife further embroils the situation. Moral indignation must be separated from political disagreement. <p/>Tamar Hernshaw has a different trouble and a terrible secret. Can one die of shame? In another quarter a suicide pact seems the solution. Duncan Cambus thinks that since it is a tragedy someone must die. Someone dies. Rose who has gone on loving without hope at least deserves a reward.