The Book and the Brotherhood

About this book

A story about love and friendship and Marxism Many years ago Gerard Hernshaw and his friends ?commissioned one of their number to write a political book. Time passes and opinions change. ?Why should we go on supporting a book which we detest? Rose Curtland asks. ?The brotherhood of Western intellectuals versus the book of history Jenkin Riderhood suggests. The theft of a wife further embroils the situation. Moral indignation must be separated from political disagreement. Tamar Hernshaw has a different trouble and a terrible secret. Can one die of shame? In another quarter a suicide pact seems the solution. Duncan Cambus thinks that since it is a tragedy someone must die. Someone dies. Rose who has gone on loving without hope at least deserves a reward.