![]() ![]() (It was due at the Essoldo in Dynmouth the following week, but they didn’t want to wait.) They are followed to the cinema by Timothy Gedge, who is a few years older and has targeted them as part of his attempt to procure a wedding dress for his macabre act at a forthcoming talent contest. They walk the eight miles to Badstoneleigh Pavilion to watch a double bill of Dr No and Diamonds Are Forever. 15-year-old Timothy Gedge is a loner who wants more. Stephen and Kate, aged twelve, are now half-brother and sister following a marriage between Stephen’s widowed father and Kate’s divorced mother. The small, pretty seaside town of Dynmouth is harshly exposed by a boys curiosity. The local gang, the Dynmouth Hards, have sprayed Blacks Out on the back wall of the cinema. ![]() The Essoldo Cinema in Dynmouth is ‘flaking pink, dim and cavernous within’, ‘antiquated and inadequately heated’ which ‘showed the same film for seven days at a time’. The novel captures the mid-70s era – a decade before the UK’s first multiplex – of down-at-heel provincial fleapits. It is the story of a malevolent teenager Timothy Gedge who wreaks havoc on the residents of the fictional Dorset seaside town of Dynmouth. ![]() William Trevor’s The Children of Dynmouth (Winner of the Whitbread Award and shortlisted for the Booker Prize) was first published in 1976. ![]()
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