Imagine

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1973

The party of the sixties is well and truly over and what's left is the hangover. It is 1973 - a time of rising unemployment, inflation and industrial unrest. Railway workers, civil servants, miners and ambulance drivers take to the picket lines. There are IRA bombs in London and Manchester; there's violence on football terraces, a crash on the stock market. It is the year when the US finally decides to stop laying waste to Vietnam and Cambodia; the year of Watergate, of secrets and lies.

In this year of heartache and upheaval, the mendacious and unrepentant Truman Bird decides he deserves a second chance. He sets out to find Christie, the wife he abandoned ten years before, and Baxter, the son he never had time for. And to help him on his way, Truman believes he's found a secret golden key that will open every door.

Christie and Baxter, meanwhile, are still haunted by the past - and trying to make new beginnings. But they, too, have their tragic secrets. Their lies.

And as they are about to discover, when Truman re-enters their lives, secrets are corrosive and lies have a habit of unravelling.

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