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My Child, My Sister

Roy Fuller

出版	A. Deutsch, 1965
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=YapaAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

Albert Shore lives alone where he has always lived, in his father's house in North Oxford. He has been a don and is a novelist. His wife Eve left him long time ago for a man called Christopher Leaf; the woman who lived with him as his second wife has recently died; and his son Fabian, friendly but elusive, is in London. Albert is at work on a novel, with nothing to stop him brooding on what life has been and on the nature of his occupation. This melancholy but not unprofitable loneliness is disturbed when Fabian announces that he wants to marry Eve's step-daughter. Albert has to see his former wife again, and the detested Christopher Leaf, and he meets for the first time their daughter Flip, half-sister of Fabian's bride. A relationship develops between the ageing man and the young girl, extraordinary because both their natures are extraordinary. On Albert's side it is compounded of some lust, much tenderness, and above all of a kind of recognition. There is something wrong with Flip, at first only disconcerting but later frightening, and this flaw which keeps her apart from other people is echoed deep within Albert.