Imagine a delightful seaside resort on the East Coast of England with blue skies, endless golden beaches and clean air far away from any industry.
Take a family with four delightful children and a young, pretty and intelligent mother living in the 1950s and 1960s in this town where rents are cheap, jobs plentiful and life just keeps getting better since the deadly Second World War has ended.
Into this world the father keeps returning from his world travels in the Merchant Navy. With him he brings angry resentment that this world of peace has not brought him any luck. No easy job. No easy money.
When he brings his bitter mind to bear on this little family they had better beware. Because their world could explode at any moment as he seeks revenge upon the world. And it does. As he presumed, they are all Bath Bricks and Thog Heads and they deserve everything they are going to get. Now