It begins at the stroke of midnight on the first day of 1997. As the year turns, a group of disparate individuals from different backgrounds, from all corners of the country, are about to embark on separate journeys which will converge over the course of the next twelve months: among them, Rebecca – mother-to-be, Sam – amnesiac, Roderick – Conservative MP, Jack – lorry driver, Martha – cat burglar, Ben – paraplegic child, Solo – his abandoned father.

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In a small town somewhere in the middle of England, the aftermath of the Second World War brings change. For ambitious industrialist Charles Freeman, it brings new opportunities and marriage to Mary. He buys the big house on the hill to cement their union and nail his aspirations to the future.

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IEzra and Sheena Pepin live in Oxford with their three children: fourteen-year-old Blaise entering the storm-world of adolescence, Hector, eleven and precociously clever, and sweet Louie, three years old and the family tyrant. Ezra, an employee at Isis Water, has abandoned his calling as an anthropologist; Sheena has inadvertently found hers running a travel company. They are like everyone else: over-worked, worried about the children, trying to steer their marriage on an even keel.

John Sharpe is a successful businessman, happily married with a newborn baby. And for John, a potato isn't just a staple food. It's wonderous, the secret of his success and key to the future. He and his brother Greg have turned their father's greengrocery into Spudnik, a multinational empire, but John is a driven man and he wants more. He has seen the true potential of the family business: edible vaccines, potatoes genetically modified to provide an alternative to injections.

Tim Pears' stunning debut novel, the story of a hot summer in a Devon village where time seems to stand still.