Tying Down the Lion

It is the summer of 1967 and the Bishop family are departing their UK home for a continental road trip. Their destination: Berlin, a gritty city recovering from the bombs of 1939 — 45 and now sliced in two by the Cold War. Will the journey unite the Anglo-German family, or forever rip them apart?

Grandma Nell loathes foreigners, especially German daughter-in-law Bridget. She’s none too pleased about son Roy jamming the whole family into an ageing Morris Traveller car for the duration. Granddaughter Jacqueline observes the trip — and the resultant spillage of family secrets — with a keen eye and a notepad in which to pen it all.

This is a story of ordinary people in an extraordinary situation, and the discovery of how something divided can be more revealing than a perfect whole. It is a quest for a family who build walls in their minds as they try to discover who they are and where they belong.

• Author
• Joanna Campbell

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 210

• Publisher
• Brick Lane Publishing

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780992886332

• Genres
• fiction

• Release date
• 2015