Kite Flying at World's End

This is how the story begins. Gregory is a middle-aged artist and part-time Art History lecturer, and he rushes home after having heard in one of the queues a half-jocular doomsday prediction and a reference to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Cocooned in his duplex that evening, he begins to plan a large triptych depicting the end of the world. Later, he helps some ‘coloured’ children from the flats next door to build kites. Later still, he finds himself falling in love with the children’s mother, straight-talking Maria April. These disparate events coalesce and then explode into a rousing assertion of the value of human existence.