Shakespeare's Clock

It’s 1984. Patricia Vickers returns like a phantom to deliver an unwelcome revelation. Jayne Thornhill is reminded of those spiteful 1960s schooldays: bullying, Charlie the skeleton, séances, strip poker, and sexual encounters with the school’s handymen. Jayne’s confessions have now been whitewashed from lavatory walls, only to be unearthed in a third school friend’s 1969 diary.

A cloud of sadness is now cast over the three women’s lives and only by revealing their own stories in later life can they move the stubborn hands of the undertaker’s clock forward. In doing so, something shockingly out of line is revealed....

©2021 Jan Moran Neil (P)2024 Jan Moran Neil

A charmingly constructed and narrated story

I found this audio book through a recommendation, which I am glad I took up. The story is wonderfully crafted with delightful use of the English language. The story is set in the 80’s with old school friends, recalling their school days. Reader beware, schooldays are not all halcyon!