Coming-of-age story set in rural England, exploring family dynamics, first love, and the search for identity
Introduction to Goob's routine life in the rural setting of Fenland, helping his mother at the transport cafe and harvesting beet fields.
Womack enters the family dynamic, beginning a relationship with Janet and moving into their home, disrupting Goob's sense of security.
Eva arrives as a beet picker, bringing excitement and possibility to Goob's life and awakening feelings he had never considered.
Goob faces the ultimate decision between staying in his current situation or pursuing a different future, caught between family obligations and personal desires.
We’re in the middle of a heat-wave in Fenland England. Goob Taylor has spent each of his sixteen summers helping Mum run the transport cafe and harvest the surrounding beet fields. When Mum shacks up with swarthy stock-car supremo and ladies’ man gene Womack, Goob becomes an unwelcome side thought. However Goob’s world turns when exotic beet picker Eva arrives. Fuelled by her flirtatious comments, Goob dreams of better things.
Guy Myhill
Rating: 6.1/10 (38 votes)
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