The story takes place in Moseley, Birmingham, immediately after the resignation of Margaret Thatcher. Arch and his mates kick firmly against the Establishment as civil disobedience reigns amongst a dizzying haze of drugs and the sound of techno beats. Although this novel is open in structure, these idealists have a clear direction of how they want their version of the world to be, and I warmed to the feckless Arch as he tried to attain it.
