The Spill - United Incandescent

‘An insane optimism, is what it was! From each according to their ability; to each according to their need. A return to innocence before thine and mine! Not just a form of words but an actual system. A scientific plan! To be delivered. By us. Brothers and sisters. Comrades.Even the word is besmirched.’

Croydon, 1997.

Henrik and Matthew haven’t gone round with a damp cloth for several years. Jessica is about to become a Blair babe. Then an unexpected ring at the door-bell precipitates a chain-reaction of discoveries and confessions. For idealistic Communist Henrik, his house-bound son Matthew and his politically ambitious daughter Jessica, a life-time built on secrets and half-truths is about to come tumbling down.The events of the last forty years – from Henrik’s days packing light-bulbs on the factory floor of United Incandescent, to the fall of the Wall, to the arrival of the mysterious Anna from Budapest – all conspire to tell a different story from the one that Henrik has carefully constructed in his memoirs, with extraordinary consequences for his children.

A passionate, quirky and epic family drama about love, loyalty, lies and the Left.
‘Left? Left? I’m perfectly Left! I’m just not completely mad!’