The Virgin in the GardenSet in Yorkshire in 1952 as the inhabitants of the area set about celebrating the accession of a new Queen, this is the tale of a brilliant and eccentric family fatefully divided. The Virgin in the Garden is a wonderfully entertaining novel, in which enlightenment and sexuality, Elizabethan drama and comedy intersect richly and unpredictably. It is the first novel to feature Frederica Potter, and the beginning of a triumphant quartet of novels.

floating high in the sky--is at the point of disaster

masturbation

'Magisterial

adding a darkly playful and wonderfully atmospheric flavour to a plot of delightful ingenuity

A compelling

But what follows is a blood-streaked trail across three continents

Until one day

Ultimately

Its wonderful

she agrees to let him write out his confession

the outspoken Speaker of the House of Commons steps out of his front door only to be crushed under a mountain of citrus fruit

They have little in common except a deep disaffection with their lives