The class divide gapes wide.Toffs,tarts,upwardly/downwardly mobile mingle - the gap’s too wide for some! Departure Gate makes the world a very small place.
Think ‘larger than life’! Cecil, poor lost soul, literally, adrift in the Nevada desert in English country tweeds, falls for Kimberley-Marie at a Motel on the North Poulder Highway, Las Vegas. His mother, Lavinia, horrified, regales this to her friend Bunty who can barely suppress her mirth. Bunty will not be laughing when her daughter Amanda falls for a tribesman from The Gambia! Told with a good measure of humour, largely tongue-in-cheek, stereotypical people face situations hilarious and sad. Each tale linked by a character from the previous one enables me to go up and down the social ladder until the end, when Herbert’s little fling catches up with him with only a few months gestation period left!! Mrs Morris (Amanda’s cleaner) and her husband (in their 70’s) have their eyes opened on their first holiday abroad together to Ibiza, having won a competition aimed at the 18-30 generation, but grasped as an opportunity to see a bit more of life before they die. They certainly do!! And so we travel on, including a liberal-minded family taking their spoilt daughter, Tabitha, on an ‘educational’ holiday to Amsterdam, where she embarks on a little more education than was intended.....