The Picture Book

Set against the backdrop of a century of british history from the first world war to the war on terror, this is intimate family portrait captured in snapshots. First there is william, the factory lad who sails to gallipoli, then his son billy,a champion cyclist who faces the D day landings on a military bicycle, followed by his crippled son will, who becomes an oxford academic in the 1960s ,and finally his daughter billie, an artist in contemporary london. just as the familial names echo through the generations, so too the legacy of choices made, chances lost, and secrets kept.