When Ellen died Peter had hoped that his father would turn up for the funeral. He had only met him once in his life and then very briefly. He suspected that Nick didn't know at the time that he was his son. But Nick had failed to put in an appearance and Peter had learned that no one, including Nick's wife Monica or his two other children, had seen or heard anything of him for over twenty-six years.......'Shooting Marmalade continues where Windproof Beauty concluded although each novel is able to stand alone. The same characters are involved as they confront events and each other throughout the last quarter of 1979 and 1980. Like Windproof Beauty, Shooting Marmalade is set in a rural community but with excursions as far afield as California and Iceland.