Synopsis
Roots
Published by Samuel French Ltd
5 Male 4 Female
She goes home and enthusiastically tells her family about his views on life
Ronnie is to visit the Bryants and everyone is eager, if skeptical, to meet him but he doesn't turn up
He writes that he doesn't think it would work
Ronnie's disillusionment has seeped into his relationship with Beatie
Stunned and under her mother's mockery Beatie stutters into a defence which becomes an attack on her stultifying background and blossoms into a vision of what could have been
And realizes she has found her own voice!