The fascinating & largely autobiographical sequel to J G Ballards prize-winning Empire of the Sun that follows Jim to post-war Engl&. The Kindness of Women continues the story of the boy whose life in Japanese-occupied Shaghai was described so memorably in Empire of the Sun it sets those traumatic events within the context of a lifetime as we follow the narrator Jim to England & suburban Shepperton after the war. Jim tries & fails to find stability as a medical student at Cambridge & a trainee RAF pilot in Canada. Then after settling happily into family life his world is ripped apart by domestic tragedy. He plunges into the maelstrom of the 1960s an instigator & subject of every aspect of cultural social & sexual revolution. All this & much more we see as the attempt of a bruised mind to make sense of the upheaval around it.