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The Open Door

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Brian Seaton returns on a troopship from Malaya in 1949, full of life and lust, to a world of rationing, the black market, a wife he no longer loves and a child who does not recognise him. But he also …

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Brian Seaton returns on a troopship from Malaya in 1949, full of life and lust, to a world of rationing, the black market, a wife he no longer loves and a child who does not recognise him. But he also has tuberculosis, forcing a long stay in a military hospital where he fall for first one nurse, then a second, while carrying on a relationship with another TB sufferer back home in Nottingham.

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"Brian Seaton returns on a troopship from Malaya in 1949, full of life and lust, to a world of rationing, the black market, a wife he no longer loves and …"

— Margaret

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