Quality is a word that trips of the tongue: "please rate the quality of your experience"; "quality assurance is at the heart of our work"; "that was a quality performance". Sometimes the stakes are high: what would happen to a police force, a hospital, or a school if it was deemed to be of low quality? But what exactly is the nature of the quality which is being referred to? And what if the prevailing conception of quality began to be unraveled?
The Quality Officer at a provincial university is found dead. What were the circumstances which surrounded his demise and what happened to the university in its wake?
Two academics, who are lovers, find themselves at the centre of the drama; a drama which takes them on a journey beyond the university's walls, on a search to discover what is at the heart of quality.
The author, Charlie Rondeau, worked in a UK university throughout the period in which this story is set.
