Stepchildren
Elspeth Barker
- Stepsons by Robert Liddell
Peter Owen, 228 pp, £14.95, February 1992, ISBN 0 7206 0853 8 - Farewell Sidonia by Erich Hackl
Cape, 135 pp, £5.99, February 1992, ISBN 0 224 02901 0
The end-papers of Stepsons show that classic of nostalgia, a family long ago at tea in a summer garden. A laughing aunt clutches a terrier; ranged round the table are a baleful grandmother, an alert little girl, a father scarcely visible and two boys whose faces rend the heart. Gentle, vulnerable, unbearably tense, they are poised for flight. Opposite, as far off as possible, sits their enemy, the Scottish Gerwoman, the stepmother of this tragic autobiographical novel.
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