This is the third novel in John's 'midlands trilogy'. The books feature several common characters whom we follow through the decades. The other stories are ' A love foretold', set in Birmingham in 1992/3 and 'Jail, bait and the hook', set in Shropshire in the mid-2010s. The inequity of redemption is the storey of Jann, who moves to Birmingham for work in 1986. He is alone and bored in a big new city and he gets involved in an affair with Beryl, a...