[2] In 2001, it was adapted for the film Last Orders by Australian writer and director Fred Schepisi.

The narrative is split into short sections told by the main characters as well as updates along the journey at Old Kent Road, New Cross, Blackheath, Dartford, Gravesend, Rochester, Chatham Naval Memorial and Canterbury Cathedral.

His death from cancer in St Thomas' Hospital brings together four men who take a journey to scatter his ashes.

Adopted son of Jack and Amy Dodds, when his biological parents (the Pritchetts) were killed during the London Blitz.

Lenny's daughter Sally had a relationship with Vince Dodds, and became pregnant, before marrying a jailbird.

On the day the four men travel to Margate to scatter the ashes, Amy visits June in a Home.

At Smithfield Meat Market she met Jack who offered her a job and board and lodgings in his house.