Tragic and hilarious in equal measure, Tim Lott\'s story of Charlie and Maureen Buck\'s ailing marriage and their climb up (and down) the social ladder during the 1980s is a wonderfully honest portrait of ordinary people living through an extraordinary time. Steeped in the decade\'s cataclysmic events, packed with the crimes and misdemeanours we visit on each another, \'Rumours of a Hurricane\' is a powerful tale of change, how we face it - and how we don\'t.\'An outstanding comic novel. Places the 1980s under sceptical and merciless scrutiny\' Literary Review.