Places Where They Sing

✍ Scribed by Raven, Simon

• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 188 KB
• Series: Alms for Oblivion 7
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

Lancaster College, Cambridge, has had a windfall of £250,000. Naturally enough, the governing body splits into factions and cabals and everybody voices his own views on how the money should be spent. One group wants to blue it all on a thorough restoration of the chapel and choir school; the extreme left seeks to desecrate the famous grounds with a huge new block of student accommodation. The moderates, led by Tom Llewyllyn, urge compromise. In the normal way, none of this would hamper Provost Constable from steering his Council into a judicious, donnish solution, But times are not normal. For the first time in the history of the college, a shrill new voice makes itself heard: the students demanding their solution - the extreme one, of course. Hugh Balliston, a clever second year man with a brilliant future and a delicious girl, the middle-class Marxist Hetta, falls under the baleful influence of Mayerston, a professional agitator. Hugh is incited into a series of protests against authority, all of which Provost Constable deftly spikes. Mayerston then moves in his big battalions. On Madrigal Sunday, a calm summer morning, before a gathering of visitors distinguished or friendly (among the latter, Fielding Gray) Mayerston stages a scene of such violence and destruction that the calm courts of Lancaster will never be the same again.
ES Index : 7
Has Cover : Yes
Number of Words in Auth: 2
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Single Author : Simon Raven
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