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|genre=Literary Fiction

|summary=On the morning after his father’s funeral Arjan Banga was surprised to see his mother opening up the family shop. She was in her sixties, recovering from cancer and besides, Bains Stores wasn’t exactly thriving. You could even be forgiven for wondering if it was ‘’open’’, with the advert for a bar of chocolate discontinued in 1994 having pride of place in the window and the security shutter stuck at a quarter open. Much as he might wish otherwise Arjan has no choice but to stay in Wolverhampton to help his mother, leaving his job as a graphic designer and his girlfriend, Freya in limbo. They were supposed to be getting married in December, but that looked increasingly unlikely.

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