Rosie, Bara, Gerry . Tom. a novel

✅ Rosie, 2️⃣4️⃣, daughter of a Herero mother 🤶 and ➕ a Cuban soldier, is a refugee from Namibia ​🇳🇦​. She 👤👩 lived with Tom, 4️⃣2️⃣, a down ⬇️-and ➕-out sculptor, in a North ⬆️ London squat for some weeks when Tom runs 🏃‍♂️ into his 👤👨⬅️ old 🧓 friend Gerry.Tom spent years with Gerry, 5️⃣2️⃣, in Southern RhodesiaZimbabwe. Their chance meeting 🤝 triggers Tom’s decision to visit Gerry at his 👤👨⬅️ home 🏠️ in Bray-on-Thames. There Tom meets 👤🤝👤 Gerry’s wife Bara, 3️⃣3️⃣, who Gerry just deserted 🏜️. Then Gerry meets 👤🤝👤 Rosie.Bara lets Tom stay in her 👤👩⬅️ spare room and ➕ they become lovers. Together they start an art 🎨 gallery. Bara gets elected as a local councillor and ➕ later becomes an MP.Rosie, Bara, Gerry & Tom: A novel shares the lives of this foursome from 1️⃣9️⃣9️⃣5️⃣ to 2️⃣0️⃣1️⃣6️⃣. The ramifications and ➕ consequences of their chance meetings 👤🤝👤 include a fateful visit to Namibia ​🇳🇦​ by Rosie and ➕ Gerry; the imprisonment of Gerry for fraud; and ➕ Tom ending 🔚 up ⬆️ homeless again 🔂, when Bara sells their home 🏠️ and ➕ the gallery, and ➕ goes to live in Italy ​🇮🇹​ with her 👤👩⬅️ girlfriend.Peter Wood Cotterill was born at Bexley in Kent, and ➕ lived in London and ➕ Essex during the World 🗺️ War II blitz. His 👤👨⬅️ father 🎅 was killed by a Nazi bomb 💣️ in 1️⃣9️⃣4️⃣0️⃣. “My mother 🤶 and ➕ I, with my younger sister, were evacuated in 1️⃣9️⃣4️⃣4️⃣ to near Skegness on the sea ⛵️ coast in Lincolnshire to escape the ‘doodlebug’ raids. We 👥⬅️ moved to Withersfield in West ⬅️ Suffolk in 1️⃣9️⃣4️⃣7️⃣. In 1️⃣9️⃣5️⃣1️⃣, I emigrated alone to central Africa 🌍️, where I lived and ➕ worked ⚙️ for some 1️⃣2️⃣ years. Since 1️⃣9️⃣7️⃣6️⃣, I have lived in a 1️⃣7️⃣th-century cottage in rural Hampshire.” ...

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