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This novel is set in the University sector. It explores two themes
of major importance in education and research. The first addresses
what is proper and acceptable behaviour between academic staff and
the students in their care. What seems at first a matter of
indiscipline in examination marking becomes a moral issue of 'marks
for sexual favours' with racial overtones that culminates in the
finding of a foetus in the ladies' toilet and the more serious
consequences of that. The expression of power by pharmaceutical
companies when they contract out research to individuals and
University Departments is also explored as is the question of who
is responsible for the outcome of that research if it has
consequences for the human population at large. How moral is a
single researcher required to be when faced with the power of a
large company? How far does his responsibility extend? These two
themes are drawn together and shown to have much to do with the
exercise of power and the exploitation of privilege at the
individual and Corporate levels.
The second in a series of novels named 'Ends & Means' is set in
the University sector and considers the effect of matters beyond
the control of individuals, on their responsibilities and
behaviour. Disasters, man-made or otherwise have effects far beyond
those immediately affected. The consequences ripple from the source
with no regard to the limits of personal trauma. In October 1966
there was a tragedy in a small mining village in South Wales when a
waste tip slid down the mountainside, engulfing a farmhouse, a
primary school and a row of houses. 116 children and 28 adults were
buried alive in a sea of slurry. No-one's life would ever be the
same again.
This novel is set in the University sector. It explores two themes
of major importance in education and research. The first addresses
what is proper and acceptable behaviour between academic staff and
the students in their care. What seems at first a matter of
indiscipline in examination marking becomes a moral issue of 'marks
for sexual favours' with racial overtones that culminates in the
finding of a foetus in the ladies' toilet and the more serious
consequences of that. The expression of power by pharmaceutical
companies when they contract out research to individuals and
University Departments is also explored as is the question of who
is responsible for the outcome of that research if it has
consequences for the human population at large. How moral is a
single researcher required to be when faced with the power of a
large company? How far does his responsibility extend? These two
themes are drawn together and shown to have much to do with the
exercise of power and the exploitation of privilege at the
individual and Corporate levels.
Edward Williams and Anna Griffiths, children of two close family
friends, who had known each other virtually from birth and who had
pledged each to the other as children, as young adults are called
upon to honour that pledge. Edward, son of Charles Williams, is now
a Geologist, and has returned from an oil exploration ship in the
Timor Sea, where he was traumatised by the events he witnessed in
the Indonesia of President Suharto. There were appalling tragedies
that he witnessed and which affected him personally to such a
degree that he retired to a remote cottage in his own country, and
hid in solitude. Anna, adopted daughter of Will and Megan Griffiths
has graduated as a Philosopher and must face a short life because
of a condition inherited from her biological parentage. She is
determined that in the time available to her she will trace her
biological parents and come to know who and what they are, and she
enlists Edward's help in her search. Her mother has died and her
father, in his own solitude, has immersed himself in the Ancient
Myths and Legends of their land, to an extent that they have become
his reality, and his daily life has become the fiction. They take
him to live with them in Edward's remote house. Their lives become
driven on these two planes which must be reconciled; and they are
called upon to justify their commitments to each other; and to
justify the continuance of their own lives.
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