How we doing with with the story? It's all a bit elusive obviously but I gather....

David works in lightbulb factory in shit northern UK town circa 1980.
David meets leftwing firebrand Veronica and falls in love.
She dies from a bomb they were making or something.
I think David meets someone else?
Something about the narrator (Octavio) being complicit in the whole thing.
David learns to love again.

Can anyone flesh that out a bit?

Probably doesn't really matter of course. Just nice to know.