Jubilee

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Format:: Paperback
Pages:: 352
Publisher:: Orion Publishing Co
Publication Date:: 24 May 2012
Category:: Modern & Contemporary
ISBN:: 9781780220086

Description

It's 1977, the day of the Queen's Silver Jubilee, when a photographer captures a moment forever: a festive street party with bunting and Union Jacks fluttering in the breeze and, right in the centre of the frame, a small Asian boy staring intensely at the camera. The photo becomes infamous when it is adopted as a symbol of everything that is great and good about Britain, but what is the real story behind it? Relationships between the neighbours on Cherry Gardens are far from easy, and minor frictions threaten to erupt as the street party begins...Fast forward to the present and that boy, Satish, is now a successful paediatric heart surgeon, saving lives and families every single day. But he's living with a secret - he's addicted to controlled prescription drugs. A message about a proposed reunion of the children in the photograph throws his life into turmoil as he thinks back to Jubilee Day, and the events that changed his life for ever.

Reader Reviews

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At the time of the Queen Elizabeth's silver jubilee when many street parties were happening a photograph was taken of one of them and in the centre of that photograph was Satish a Pakistani immigant to Britain. The photograph was shown as an example of how Britain was and should be - a multicultural country embracing others from different countries. When we fast forward to the present Satish is a successful cardiologist who regularly saves lives. He is asked to take part in a reenactment of that photo with all the people from the original photo getting together again, but Satish does not want to do this for he has a secret. Things were not as they seemed on that day. This book goes back and forward in time. It captures the lives of all the participants in the photo and how relations were between them at the time and it tells the story of where their lives have taken them from that day. I enjoyed this story a lot.

3.50 out of 5

kiwifortyniner
Very slow to get going, was expecting a much bigger and better twist to the story.

2.00 out of 5

lozbeth1