"This afternoon, you were treated to the melancholy prospect of your father standing in the kitchen, ironing the festive paper in which the morning’s gifts had been wrapped. He gave you his version of his jovial smile, saying, ‘Better look after this paper, you know. And the string’…It was easy, you thought, for parsimony to masquerade as patriotism."
Part II, Chapter 3 (Christmas at Gracefield)
From Walcot by Brian Aldiss (Goldmark Books)
Walcot is a family saga set against the tumultuous events of the 20th century. Following the Fieldings’ affairs in love and war, the story is told through the youngest member of the family - Stephen - or rather through a mysterious someone talking to Stephen (the entire book is written in the second-person narrative). Who could it be? And what is the terrible secret that Stephen must spend his whole life trying to uncover?
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