The Edge of Things

Eldon lives on life's precarious margins. Abandoned early by a black father and traveller mother he has passed his childhood first with a tinker Grandfather who does not want him and then in a care home - that does not care and is no home.A chance encounter with Elly at the tyre depot where he works changes all that. Love has been absent from Elly's childhood too - spent in apparent luxury in the village on the hill - absent that is except for Chris her brother whose life brings sunshine into her sombre world. Physically drawn to to the shy dark young man Elly's powerful sexual appetites sweep a passive and astonished Eldon into her sphere. And here begins a potent erotic relationship - one that promises the green shoots of something like love ... until a catastrophic night of fire brings chaos into all their lives.. COVER DESIGN by PATRICK ROBERTSHAW