A Brief History - of some people documented in unreliable memoirs, myths, stories, truths, and half-truths that defy all calculations of probability.

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With a fighting Irish Mother, a Jamaican ‘Dad’ and an ‘Uncle’ who lives with his three sisters, shy, inquisitive Joe wonders why he isn’t black.

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Alb, a kind and mysterious neighbour, gifts Joe a photo album.

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​Seeking answers about its contents Joe falls in love with the beautiful academic Francesca and they are lost in the realms of history and thought.

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As stories and dark secrets of the last century seep into this one, and random unconnected people and events are connected across space and time, can love conquer despair?