The Living Days

A chance encounter on Portobello Road incites an unsettling, magnetic attraction between Mary, a seventy-five-year-old British spinster, and Cub, a thirteen-year-old Jamaican boy from Brixton. Mary clings increasingly to phantoms and fantasies as dementia overtakes her reality, latching on to Cub and channeling all of her remaining energy into their relationship. But her macabre romance with Cub comes to a horrific climax, as white supremacy, poverty, and class conflict explode on the streets of London.