The Uninvited Guest
Young, Mary / Pegg Jones, Patricia
The Wiltshire vicarage where Mary Young grew up embodied Edwardian convention, English eccentricity and gothic family dynamics. Spanking captains, fraudulent photographers, villagers stalked by Lenin, the midwife whose love could not be named were real people in Mary's childhood world. The vicarage was a place in which the adults did not speak to one another. In her late 30's, Mary moved to London with no skills or means of support, and joined...