Blind Howard, an ex-RAF veteran, possesses an acute
sense of #awareness, and can see almost better than
the sighted. Morse code patterns his universe and keeps
his #mind tuned to the big and sometimes bad world.
Noble Laura, his doting wife, is loveliness personified. Then Howard becomes acquainted with the nefarious
Richard, and soon the idyll of his life with Laura starts to
crack. Morse is the common denominator in the alliance.
But before long, Howard and his world of dots and
dashes, dits and dans, takes on new darker horizons
when he clicks into a drugs racket. Howard, the codebreaker,
becomes Howard the buccaneer. He leaves
lovely Laura for a wild voyage in search of a woman
whose voice he has fallen in love with: and a sea-journey
with maverick sailors on a heroin heist. Siletoe inhabits Howard's unseeing world with absolute
conviction, providing a wealth of telling detail about a
blind person's skilful negotiation of his everyday
surroundings