Rosetta Mulligan, seventies rock-chick, fashion icon and friend to the stars has never fully embraced her role as mother to her four sons. They, in turn, have never fully accepted her as "Mum" and certainly have their doubts as to who to call "Dad".
Twenty years on, the angelic Mulligan babies have turned from flower power children into four very different adults, and Rosetta now feels the time is right to parcel up her past and move on - but not until she has written her revelations of life on the road. The trouble is, there could be an awful lot that is news to her boys . . .
From the glitter and glamour of the seventies to the minimalism and feng shui of the nineties, 'Swansong' is Victoria Routledge's most original and entertaining novel so far.
