Tom
In which Tom meets Sylvan
Tom was an ordinary lad. He lived in an ordinary house on an ordinary street with his ordinary sister and their ordinary Mum and Dad. His Dad, Brian, worked for a big bank. He wasn’t a cashier; he was higher up than that but not quite high enough to be a manager. Brian was in charge of mortgages. Tom’s mother, Jane, worked voluntarily for Oxfam two days a week. Other than that, she attended the WI on a Wednesday evening and, on a Saturday night, played Canasta with Brian, Linda and Gordon & Shelly and Kevin. Tom’s sister, Gillian, was doing her GCSEs and was on target to get 9 grade Bs. Tom, who was (and always will be) a little older, had just finished his first year A Levels, achieving all Bs in his mocks.