It's 2013 and 80-year-old Frances (part-time copywriter, has-been writer, one-time national treasure) is sitting on the stairs of Number 3, Chalcot Crescent, listening to debt collectors pounding on her door. From this house she's witnessed five decades of world history - she writes about the Shock, the Crunch, the Squeeze, the Recovery, the Fall, the Crisis and the Bite, about ration books, powercuts, National Meat Loaf (suitable for vegetarians) and the new Neighbourhood Watch. The problem is that fact and fiction are blurring; is it her writer's imagination, old age, or plain paranoia? A Dewey Diva pick from Ann Ledden.
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