The End of the Line — Stanley Laine

..".our old friends now scattered like leaves in the wind...the common fate for all coteries since the dawn of civilization, to dissolve in such a manner, but there is something uniquely tragic and uncommonly ignoble in the way in which it happened to ours." A coming of age story told in Laine's classic style that follows the relationships of five friends growing up together in the sheltered isolation of St. Joseph Catholic School and a changing economy in the small factory town of Milford Keynes. Beneath the uncertainty of youth blossoms a love story with implications for generations to come and ushers in a new understanding of what reaching 'the end of the line' truly means in their lifetime and the tragedies that follow.