Date: 13 January, 2025
On the cobbled streets, below the dreaming spires of Oxford, where titans of industry and world leaders are formed, a cancer creeps insidiously, hidden beneath the genteel veneer and personified in Dan, addicted to crack and causing carnage in the community. At just eighteen Dan has known real pain, having never stood a chance with the start in life he’d had at the Temple Cowley end of the city. His girlfriend, Katie, though from wealthy parents and brought up in splendour in Summertown, North Oxford, is also addicted to hard drugs and doing things she never envisaged in order to...