Dig Yourself Book

When Council estate-kid Caroline falls off her bike outside Mark's parents' terraced house, she becomes part of the family. The Croziers are the perfect surrogate family : two parents still more-or-less happily married, Grandad, lots of pets and Mark and Billy, one of whom she thinks she will marry. It's light years away from her own home, a dingy flat with her many half-siblings and unemployed mother. But later in life it is Caroline who has been to grammar school and then to university and has prospects, whilst Mark is hanging out in pubs and wondering whether he can get away with not committing to his long-term girlfriend. As the end of the twentieth-century approaches what does the new millennium hold in store for these two people? Will Caroline find love and a job worthy of her dreams? Will Mark do anything at all? Written in Goffin's inimitable and witty style this is an impressive novel of social realism about life, aspirations and the ties that bind us to our homes despite everything. Read More