Publisher's Synopsis
I was nineteen, a student on a holiday job. It was a long time ago, round about the end of the sixties. The sixties was all supposed to be so wonderful, all that love and peace and zany fun and stuff, and yet for me people just seemed nasty.'
It's the 60s and jobs are casual - to say the least. When Sandie is offered a job working in the kitchen of a castle in Ireland that has been given over to a summer camp for underprivileged children, she thinks why not. She brings her boyfriend Mark too. There are some odd people working there and the children bring their own particular experiences, but it is Sandie herself who seems the odd one out. The groupings of the summer people begin to shift ominously and suddenly everyone is taking sides, most particularly amongst the kitchen staff. It's too much for a fragile character and Sandie cracks.
This is an intense, emotionally charged story about alienation and about the sixties. Reminiscent of GIRL, INTERRUPTED; this is vintage Birch.
