It’s 1968 and in Paris the students are rioting but in Broughton, 20 miles East of Manchester the Permissive Society has just arrived, driving a multi-coloured VW camper van and the locals aren’t best pleased. ‘Anthills and Stars is a warm and beautifully observed comedy and very, very funny. Kevin Duffy has Alan Bennett’s fine ear for dialogue.’ Scott Pack, chief fiction buyer at Waterstones and now publisher at Harper Collins.
