"Mother died at five fifty-eight."
So begins this story of seven extraordinary children who, faced with the unknown terrors of an orphanage, decide not to report their mother's death. They bury her in the garden, telling people...
Limms a portrait of the idiosyncratic Darley family--Oliver, a crochety architect; his long-suffering wife, May; their son, Rubert, a seeker after truth; and Rupert's daughter, Miranda, a medical student who is slowly learning about life's complexiti...
First published in 1967, this is a tale of Jordan Maddox who has so disciplined his own emotions that he has, in reality, little contact with life: indifferent, he no longer responds to the signs of love-even of desperation- from those who are close ...