Peter George Whitehill is the son of a First Consul stationed in Cairo. But Peter is just about to escape his public school for good and head to London, just two hours away, where he'll make a stab at independence at the age of seventeen and a half. Henry Toledano's The Turn in the Road is a highly entertaining and absorbing tale of Peter's introduction to looking out for himself in a world of scoundrels. He finds accommodation with the gambling dreamer...