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Littered under Mercury', set in the '70s, chronicles the persistently turbulent relationship between Jill and Jay. Following the briefest of reunions, she returns to the States whilst he remains teaching in Cheshire, championing the disadvantaged via 'Shakespeare on the Rocks', radical pedagogy which his colleagues hate but his pupils love. Jill, meanwhile, thrives in Virginia and is ultimately reunited with her mentor, Sir Anton Keiter, as ...

The Swinging Sixties are fading as Infinite Riches opens. This new tale starts where Chalk finished: in a pub in Durham. The protagonists - Jill and Jay - have just met. Inauspiciously.Jay, a spoilt boy, has grown up into a spoilt young man. Arrogant and self-centred, yet charismatic and clever.Jill has matured into a beautiful, intelligent young woman: still a hostage to her upbringing and tangled sexuality, but determined to break the bounda...

Growing up in the '50s and '60s Jill and Jay explore the era through contrasting perspectives. They are intrinsically different...or are they? Jill's background is working-class Tyneside. Her family life is happy, if dysfunctional. Despite woeful schooling, Jill is a wonderful learner and her intellectual mentors, the 'lit twins', are destined to be a lasting influence. Blessed with modesty and a magnetic personality, she mesmerises the many y...