D-Pendency

Martin Swordshsire, consultant for the prime minister’s “Drugs Committee, and Jerome Te Tui El Tercero, a mixed race New Zealander, and group facilitator, meet at a community drug and alcohol project in London’s west end. Initially their differing backgrounds and beliefs on punishment verse therapy clash, eventually they build a friendship that like the addicts in group, focuses on generation X and Y concerns’ – housing, the future of the planet and the legalisation of drugs. 


The diverse range of characters in this contemporary novel end up questioning whose voices they need to heed – the inner whisperings of Crack and Heroin, their fathers’ unmet desires or their own. 


In a world Jerome and Martin feel the baby boomer generation is taking too much from – they, and their generation are asking who, and what, can they depend on?