Acting up

When the Second Iraq War breaks out, Lieutenant Susie Anderson - twenty-four and the latest in a long line of military Andersons - delays her wedding to her handsome fellow-officer Callum, and joins her regiment on the hot sands of Kuwait. Her brother Francis, meanwhile, continues to pursue his cabaret career as Madame Fanny Fantoni, drag chanteuse with the most remarkable falsetto top C in Clapham. As the neighbours agree, it must all be terribly difficult for their poor parents, especially the General. The real difficulties come, though, when Callum is sent home injured, altered and bitter, to set off a painful tangle of relationships which is resolved by the least likely angel of them all.