What Fools We Have Been

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While clearing out his father’s home, a son finds a series of photographs that unravels five generations of family history. As perspectives shift and new truths emerge, the family piece together memories fractured by grief, anger, and wartime trauma. Morecambe Bay, Lancashire: A son clears out his parents’ house after their death. When he finds a series of haunting photographs of the Bay, taken by his father towards the end of his life, it sparks a journey through the scattered memories and broken connections of five generations of family history. Flowing from the vibrant post-war Jewish community of London's east end, to the quiet suburban streets of Stanmore, and back to the rugged Lancashire coast, the story cascades down through each generation’s shifting perspective. A wife appeases her charismatic yet destructive husband; a son reimagines the jigsaw of his mother’s life; a granddaughter tries to heal the traumas of the past. Based on a true story, What Fools We Have Been is an exploration of memory, identity, and the trail of damage left in the wake of wartime trauma. It asks: Is it possible to repair the wreckage of the past? What is it that makes us who we are?

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Pagina's: 150, Hardcover, Chiselbury Publishing