The year is 1973 and thirteen-year-old Alexis Greening, the son of a hippy couple who live aboard their narrow boat on the River Thames near the town of Reading, Berkshire, finds himself confronted by fourteen-year-old Justin Armstrong, the son of a senior diplomat and his wife. From this somewhat frosty and uncertain encounter, a friendship blossoms that finds the boys falling in love with each other. This then, is the story of their lives from their...