The Royal House of Dalvad rules in an alternative 21st century Britain. Society consists of the upper classes and the cloddish 'hailfellas' and over immense stretches of the land, which has a Victorian atmosphere in many ways, forests still existâ...

This short story describes the set-up that exists in a Suffolk town in the early 1960s when a group of teenagers forms a kind of club meeting up most nights around a fallen tree trunk on the northern bank of the River Teaver. Around this 'Lovers'...