During one glorious summer between the wars the realities of life and the sexual ritual dance of the adult World creep into the life of Young Margaret Marsh. He... » 

During one glorious summer between the wars the realities of life and the sexual ritual dance of the adult World creep into the life of Young Margaret Marsh. Her father preaching the doctrine of the unsavoury Primal Saints her mother bitterly nostalgic for what might have been Charles and Binkie anchored in the past and a game of words dying Mrs Frayling and Lydia the maid who is given to the vulgar enjoyment of life all contribute to Margarets shattering moment of truth. «