Indeed, Melrose Gardens is his worst nightmare – until he meets Gregory.Īt only nineteen years of age, Greg has suffered a loss so heavy that he is in danger of giving up on life before he even gets going.ĭetermined to save the boy, Baxter decides to enlist his help on a mission to pay tribute to his long-lost love, Thomas: the man with whom he found true happiness the man he waved off to fight in a senseless war the man who never returned. He had every intention of living his twilight years with wine, music and revelry not tea, telly and Tramadol. Mr Baxter is ninety-four years old when he falls down his staircase and grudgingly finds himself resident at Melrose Gardens Retirement Home.īaxter is many things – raconteur, retired music teacher, rabble-rouser, bon viveur – but ‘good patient’ he is not. Let me tell you a story, about a man I knew, and a man I know…
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