Late in The DayAlex and Christine and Zach and Lydia have been close friends since they first met in their twenties. Thirty years later Alex and Christine are spending a leisurely summer evening at home when they receive a call from a distraught Lydia. Zach is dead. In the wake of this profound loss, the three friends find themselves unmoored; all agree that Zach was the sanest and kindest of them all, the irreplaceable one they couldn't afford to lose.

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ranging from painting to ceramics

and evokes the rhythms and charms of small-town life

featuring the much-loved Spot

When fashion runways shone with British talent

The ancient standing stones

When the rector

spread over a mile of shelving

he was at peace

So why do people keep asking you where you are from

orange-blossom scented pastries