Sunday Lunch

Sunday Lunch
by Nora Naish (1993)

An interesting story about an affair gone wrong and how people survived after the truth came out. The story is well written and the characters are interesting. Though the showdown between Amanda and Lizzie was somewhat brief.

Some observations:

When they tried to find a hospital bed for Wilf, James mentioned that hospitals are required to use their resources efficiently. Apparently this sort of thinking didn’t start in the 21st-century.

It seems that Nora Naish is in favour of the NHS. One of the old doctors had a long monologue about how in the old days only the men received medical care from doctors as they were the wage-earners of the family. But do people receive adequate medical attention today by the NHS?

Also it was pointed out how medicine has developed over the years. For example, James mentioned how before the war there were several infant deaths every winter in the village because antibiotics weren’t available.

Global warming was mentioned in passing.

“Welfare state what have we left undone as we move into the senility boom we can’t cope with…” So already in the early 1990’s there were too many old people for the society to handle in the UK. This topic is much discussed at the moment in Finland.