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\n@ JohnRUttley<\/p>\n
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There wasn\u2019t a lightning strike at the church in Evesham where the funeral took place, which Bob regards as sufficient evidence that his theology is sound.\u2019 The northern grammar school pals Bob Swarbrick and Richard Shackleton are back, now facing the era of Brexit, Momentum and Donald Trump. The trials and renewals of Where\u2019s Sailor Jack? behind them, they find themselves in a world whose faith and politics have moved beyond their sphere of influence and feel increasingly cut off from their roots. Bob, now settled with Wendy, must reconcile old memories and new children while Richard must save his family from themselves. Along the way, they are adopted by the lascivious Lucy Fishwick and her predatory daughter Maddie, whose lives are as mad and chaotic as the radio play Lucy is trying to write and, indeed, the world itself. But despite the coming plague, it doesn\u2019t look like Armageddon. There is to be an apocalypse, but one of personal dimensions. We don\u2019t all go together when we go!<\/p>\n
“A wonderful, standalone story that can also be enjoyed as
\na follow-up to John Uttley\u2019s first novel, Where\u2019s Sailor
\nJack? this time told by Bob and Wendy themselves. I laughed, I cried, I considered moving
\nnorth. Poignant, funny, thoughtful and raw, No Precedent gives voice to the babel that is
\nmodern culture, as experienced by a group of very different families who all nonetheless love
\neach other to pieces.” – Stephen Carver, Author & Critic<\/p>\n
The northern grammar school pals Bob Swarbrick and Richard Shackleton are back, now facing
\nthe era of Brexit, Momentum, Coronavirus and Donald Trump. For the first time in their lives,
\nBob and Richard struggle to see the meaning of it all.
\nThe trials and renewals of Where’s Sailor Jack? (John Uttley\u2019s debut novel released in 2015)
\nbehind them, they find themselves in a world whose faith and politics have moved beyond their
\nsphere of influence and feel increasingly cut off from their roots.
\nBob, now settled with Wendy, must reconcile old memories and new children while Richard
\nmust save his family from themselves. Along the way, they are adopted by the lascivious Lucy
\nFishwick and her predatory daughter Maddie, whose lives are as mad and chaotic as the radio
\nplay Lucy is trying to write and, indeed, the world itself.
\nBut despite the coming plague, it doesn’t look like Armageddon. There is to be an apocalypse,
\nbut one of personal dimensions. We don’t all go together when we go!
\nNo Precedent gives some clue as to why Brexit happened and why the red wall fell, not that
\neither protagonist wanted the former, nor would have wanted the latter if Harold Wilson were
\nstill prime minister. John Uttley knows the towns of the north, the county boroughs as he still
\ncalls them, and writes with nostalgia and reflexion on times gone by and times yet to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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