The Final Piece
Jones, Alan A Half Remembered Song
Teacher Tom Ellison takes group of his pupils on a fishing holiday in Southern
Ireland. One of the boys disappears mysteriously and an extensive search, involving divers and helicopter, fails to find the boy. Blame Culture in The National
Press, and criticism at home, leave his reputation in tatters as he was held responsible. He is forced from his job. Two years later he receives a postcard telling him to "Ask Mary McMa...