Last Orders

Main Ideas

• Exploration of memory and the past through personal recollections and collective experience.
• The complexity and multifaceted nature of friendship and human relationships.
• Examination of loss and grief, and the ways people cope with it.
• Questions of identity and self-definition, how they are formed and change over time.
• Consideration of social and cultural changes in post-war England and their impact on ordinary lives.
• The theme of the journey as a metaphor for life's path and the search for meaning.