ABSTRACT
Trevor Grundy’s eighty-four-year-old father, Sidney, dies after a series of major heart attacks at a hospital in North London in April 1991. His son Trevor and his wife, Jane, fly from their home in Zimbabwe to attend the funeral. The congregation of seven people includes two stalwarts from Friends of Mosley. Trevor’s mind wanders to another funeral and another father figure, Sir Oswald Mosley, who died in Paris in December 1980. One of the Mosleyites suggests they distract the Australian cleric in charge of the service so that Trevor can do the fascist salute over his father’s coffin. He refuses and then reads a section from Corinthians where St Paul talks about the way we see the world when we are ignorant and how we see it later if we are enlightened and aware. This upsets one of the Mosleyites, who asks if Trevor was trying to give the impression his dead father was involved in something childish.
