The First Cut: A Comic Farce Set on the Canals of England

Four Counties ...Three Families ...Two Weeks ...One Unforgettable Holiday When three families decide to take a relaxing holiday on a hire boat, cruising the Four Counties Ring, little do they suspect how events will unfold. In this darkly comic tale from canal-based author Simon J. Stephens, the reader accompanies the Roberts and the Williams families as their dreams of a peaceful escape from it all slowly unravel. Family tensions and rivalries, secrets from the past, hidden talents that will change the future and a smattering of death, injury plus an obligatory vicar add up to a create a wonderfully English comic farce.The locations are real and the experience may be familiar to those who have ventured forth on a canal cruise, but none (I hope) will have endured the life-changing events that unfold in 'The First Cut'.