Nina Bawden

George can't take his life seriously. He founds a successful travel agency, because he is a natural tourist himself, an outsider. George believes that life will always to on like this, but events catch up with him - at first slyly, then suddenly.

A senile old man falls down the stairs and dies. Did he fall or was he pushed? His daughter-in-law, her husband and her friend each tell the story in turn, but their accounts are full of self-deception.