China

Description:

Digby Walton was once the heir to an English pottery factory. Now in old age he contemplates the history of that company. His son, Theo, wishes simply to play trumpet in a jazz band. Digby's neighbour, Daisy Gresham, seeks her own elusive son.

subjects: Fiction,  Pottery industry,  Parent and adult child,  Jazz musicians,  Inheritance and succession,  Family-owned business enterprises,  Fathers and sons,  Conflict of generations,  Older men,  Twentieth century,  Psychological fiction,  Sons,  Fiction, sagas,  England, fiction

Places: England