Reunion

by Geoff Spedding

Fifty years after the events recounted in the novel 'Fourteen', the Mannering Gang, the main characters in the book, gather in the town of Cardigan for a reunion. Their lives have been spent fulfilling their dreams, suffering illnesses, injuries and grief and, in some cases, unsuccessful marriages. Just like everyone everywhere. 'Reunion' recounts the stories of their lives and these are intertwined with a puzzling mystery which concerns the disappearance of the Principal of the Cardigan High School into which someone is trying to implicate the Gang. The Mannering Gang doesn't want to be involved, but whoever is behind the disappearance obviously dislikes the Gang very much. As the group enjoys the events of their reunion, there is the looming, indefinable threat overshadowing what was supposed to be a time of joyful reunion. What the threat is and who is the perpetrator is a puzzle which perplexes the police and, even though they don't wish to be involved, the Mannering Gang as well.

270 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 26, 2018

About the author

Geoff Spedding is a New Zealand-born writer who lives in Rome, Italy. His captivation by the great valley of Umbria had led to this novel which is a tribute to this part of Italy. He has lived in New Zealand, canada and Australia as well as Italy. He is the author of "Seeking Residenza", a portrait of the difficulties he encountered with Italian bureaucracy; "Some Special People", a collection of about 600 biographies of people interred in the Cimitero Acattolico (Protestant Cemetery) in Rome; "Ulf", a mystery novel set in the Victorian hillcountry in Australia and is currently occupied in writing "Ash", a sequel to "Ulf". In what he describes as his 'previous life', he has, among other things, been a teacher, broadcaster, journalist, actor, labourer, house builder, truck driver, photographer, timber worker, clergyman, police chaplain and is currently busily employed at being retired.