Putney / Sofka Zinovieff.
Publication details: London : Bloomsbury Circus, 2018.Description: 370 pages ; 22 cmISBN:- 9781408895764
- 9781408895757
- Composers -- Fiction
- Infatuation -- Fiction
- Child sexual abuse -- Fiction
- Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
- Infatuation -- Fiction
- Secrecy -- Fiction
- Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
- Nineteen seventies -- Fiction
- Children and adults -- Fiction
- Sexual consent -- Fiction
- Composers -- Fiction
- Putney (London, England) -- Fiction
- 823.92 23
- PR6126.I56 P88 2018
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction | ZIN | Available | 068253 |
Ralph Boyd's first glimpse of 9 year-old Daphne will be etched on his mind forever. Dark, teasing, slippery as mercury, she seems neither boy nor girl, but a sprite or something elemental. An up-and-coming composer, Ralph is visiting the writer Edmund Greenslay at his riverside home in Putney to discuss a collaboration. In its colourful rooms and unruly garden, Ralph finds an intoxicating world of sensuous ease and bohemian abandon that captures the mood of the moment. Entranced, he knows he will return. But Ralph is twenty-five and Daphne is only a child, and even in the liberal 1970s a fast-burgeoning relationship between a man and his friend 's daughter must be kept secret. Years later, after a turbulent youth and a failed marriage, Daphne watches her twelve-year-old daughter Libby mimic the gestures of adult sexuality, and is finally forced to confront her own childhood and its shocking truths.