Serendipity
and
the
deaths
of
parents
have
brought
two
unrelated
families,
the
Corrans
and
the
Lockyears,
to
Holm
Oak
Lodge,
a
small
hotel
on
the
border
between
England
and
Wales.
Here,
in
the
course
of
a
single
day,
the
six
beneficiaries
jostle,
connive,
argue
and
compete
for
their
shares
of
the
worldly
belongings
their
parents
left
them
when
they
drew
up
their
wills
many
years
ago.
Now
adults,
the
children
reveal
their
venality
and
benevolence,
their
bigotry and generosity, their greed and indifference.
Inevitably
they're
helped
and
hindered
by
their
professional
advisers,
the
lawyers
representing
the
interests
of
their
clients
among
the
families.
From
managing
situations
like
these
they
make
their
livings
and
their
reputations.
At
Holm
Oak
Lodge
this
day
these
professionals
juggle
a
gamut
of
conflicting
objectives
tempered
by
their
personal
ambitions
and
moralities.
Within
this
bear-pit
of
competing
objectives
and
animosities,
family
loyalties
and
respect
for
their
parents,
Saoirse
Corran
and
Gerard
Lockyear
unintentionally
find
themselves
holding
the
rings
for
their
individual
family's
squabbles.
This
shared
role
starts
as
a
passing
courtesy
and
develops
into
an
unexpected
and
unsought
romance.
For
each
them
it
brings
the
prospect
of
a
change
in
their
lives
neither
wished for nor even contemplated.
As
Robert
Pirsig
famously
described,
at
Holm
Oak
Lodge
a
dozen
lives
with
varying
degrees
of
familiarity
and
empathy
intersect
and
overlap
for
24
hours
before
continuing
their
existence,
all
to one degree or another changed by the experience.
Unlike Philip's earlier novels this story has no dramatic thriller hooks. Despite this you will have
to wait until the last line to discover his resolution. Whether it's the one you hoped or wished for
is the conundrum you’re guaranteed to dwell on after the last page is finally turned.
Holm Oak Lodge
Serendipity
and
the
deaths
of
parents
have
brought
two
unrelated
families,
the
Corrans
and
the
Lockyears,
to
Holm
Oak
Lodge,
a
small
hotel
on
the
border
between
England
and
Wales.
Here,
in
the
course
of
a
single
day,
the
six
beneficiaries
jostle,
connive,
argue
and
compete
for
their
shares
of
the
worldly
belongings
their
parents
left
them
when
they
drew
up
their
wills
many
years
ago.
Now
adults,
the
children
reveal
their
venality
and
benevolence,
their
bigotry
and
generosity,
their
greed
and indifference.
Inevitably
they're
helped
and
hindered
by
their
professional
advisers,
the
lawyers
representing
the
interests
of
their
clients
among
the
families.
From
managing
situations
like
these
they
make
their
livings
and
their
reputations.
At
Holm
Oak
Lodge
this
day
these
professionals
juggle
a
gamut
of
conflicting
objectives
tempered by their personal ambitions and moralities.
Within
this
bear-pit
of
competing
objectives
and
animosities,
family
loyalties
and
respect
for
their
parents,
Saoirse
Corran
and
Gerard
Lockyear
unintentionally
find
themselves
holding
the
rings
for
their
individual
family's
squabbles.
This
shared
role
starts
as
a
passing
courtesy
and
develops
into
an
unexpected
and
unsought
romance.
For
each
them
it
brings
the
prospect
of
a
change
in
their
lives
neither
wished for nor even contemplated.
As
Robert
Pirsig
famously
described,
at
Holm
Oak
Lodge
a
dozen
lives
with
varying
degrees
of
familiarity
and
empathy
intersect
and
overlap
for
24
hours
before
continuing
their
existence,
all
to
one
degree
or
another
changed by the experience.
Unlike Philip's earlier novels this story has no dramatic
thriller hooks. Despite this you will have to wait until the
last line to discover his resolution. Whether it's the one
you hoped or wished for is the conundrum you’re
guaranteed to dwell on after the last page is finally
turned.
Holm Oak Lodge
