The Last of the Lutchens

A backwards look at Britain over the last hundred years, through the eyes of an Anglo-Scots family of noble but dubious lineage, featuring the illusions and obsessions of three generations of the Lutchens, woven together in a genealogical tree rooted in a Scotland which we only thought we knew. Starting in the swinging Sixties as the Beatles’ first single tops the charts and the Cuban Crisis looms, the narrative tracks back through two world wars to uncover a skeleton in the family closet during the glory days of the British Empire, before proceeding full circle to 2014, when breakup threatens the disunited family. Will the Lutchens go their separate ways, or patch up their differences? Yes or no? Everything hangs in the balance, for the family and also the British nation state.