Wordly Goods (Damaged)

Campbell comes from Yorkshire, Nina from the Home Counties. The occasion of their wedding brings together the two sides of a family as disparate yet familiar as any. The bride s mother is excessively religious. The bridegroom s father thinks mostly about health and food. The distant cousin with a roving eye says to you never know whom you might meet at a wedding. All are vital to the story.What of the young couple themselves? It is Nina s great day, but once the best bit - walking down the aisle to Mendelssohn - is over, she doesn't seem to be the centre of attention any more. In which case what was the point? Or was it love? The time is the late fifties. A few things might be different now. For instance the two of them might have set up house without the hymns and expense of it. But one things for the attitudes of the southerners to the northerners and vice versa would be very much the same.This is a portrait of the English. They have varying backgrounds. Some love each other, some hate each other, some have class, some have money, some have both and some have neither. Elizabeth North uses a razor-sharp scalpel to lay bare the truths behind such situations. These are truths which still touch us all.