VINTAGE PAPERBACK EDITION.TEAR ON BASE OF COVER.CREASES TO SPINE & COVER.PRIOR OWNER NAME ON INSIDE PAGE AND PAGES DISCOLOURED DUE TO AGE
Small area on front page where paper has worn. Original owner signature on inside page. Pictures provided upon request.Carel is widowed rector presiding over a London church destroyed during the war. The rectory is home to an array of residents: his daughter, Muriel; his beautiful invalid ward, Elizabeth; their West Indian servant, Pattie; Eugene, a Russian emigre, and his delinquent son, Leo. Carel's brother, Marcus, is co-guardian of Elizabeth, but his attempts to get closer to the rector are constantly rebuffed. These seven characters maintain a constant dance of attraction and repulsion, misunderstanding and revelation, the centre of which is the enigmatic Carel himself - a priest who believes that, God being dead, His angels have been released.