Disappearance Peter Stead A secondary theme running throughout

A secondary theme running throughout the book is the manner in which small-town life

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Disappearance Peter Stead A secondary theme running throughoutA young Afro Guyanese engineer comes to a coastal Kentish village as part of a project to shore up its crumbling sea defences. He boards with an old English woman, Mrs Rutherford, and through his relationship with her discovers that beneath the apparent placidity and essential Englishness of this village, violence and raw emotions are not far below the surface, along with echoes of the imperial past. In the process, he is forced to reconsider his