Memoir of the author's sojourn in the American wilderness where she takes a job as a caretaker and meets some extraordinary characters who become her teachers and companions. Here she receives healing from these people and from the land....
Morgan Perincall's marriage is already disintegrating when her husband volunteers for service in France. Dazed by his desertion, she sends their children west to safety, and leaves London for the dubious sanctuary of her childhood home, the Villa Rou...
A gasteropod is a mollusc or snail, like the specimens whose shimmering shells the narrator of this unusual novel keeps carefully organized in a special room in his gloomy mansion. He also collects photographs, thousands of them carefully preserved i...