Book description
It's 1977, the day of the Queen's Silver Jubilee, when a photographer
captures a moment forever: a festive street party with bunting and Union
Jacks fluttering in the breeze and, right in the centre of the frame, a
small Asian boy staring intensely at the camera. The photo becomes
infamous when it is adopted as a symbol of everything that is great and
good about Britain, but what is the real story behind it? Relationships
between the neighbours on Cherry Gardens are far from easy, and minor
frictions threaten to erupt as the street party begins...
Fast forward to the present and that boy, Satish, is now a successful
paediatric heart surgeon, saving lives and families every single day.
But he's living with a secret - he's addicted to controlled prescription
drugs. A message about a proposed reunion of the children in the
photograph throws his life into turmoil as he thinks back to Jubilee
Day, and the events that changed his life for ever. Shelley Harris was
born in Cape Town, South Africa in 1967, to a South African mother and a
British father. She has worked, among other things, as a teacher, a
reporter, a mystery shopper and a bouncer at a teen disco. When she is
not writing, she volunteers at her local Oxfam bookshop, helping
customers find just the right book. Jubilee is her first novel.
