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  • Hardcover: 96 pages
  • Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd; First Edition edition (19 May 1994)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1856812294
  • ISBN-13: 978-1856812290
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In a spare novel with the resonance of myth, two troubled families are healed when their paths conjoin. Some years ago on a remote island resembling Nantucket, Larkin's parents are silently mourning the death of a baby they never named and never described to his sister. The day the summer people leave, they find year-old Sophie on their doorstep with a note: "I will lose her forever if you don't do this, so pleese keep her. I will come back for her one day..." Papa wants to tell the police, but - after impassioned discussion - Mama dissuades him. Sophie stays until spring; and though Papa warns "Don't love her," once they've cared for her, and shared her first words, the parting is hard indeed. Yet while Larkin fears this new bereavement - especially for Mama - love ("That word with a life of its own...flying above all of us like the birds") opens the door to sharing their grief about their own baby. Once Sophie is gone, their feelings find words - and also lead to the dead baby's being given a name. At the story's beginning, Larkin's parents have abandoned her emotionally (an intriguing contrast to Journey); but Sophie's subsequent memories of her sojourn - in lyrical vignettes plus a poignant last scene of her return visit ten years later - are not of separation but of love: faces, gestures, images. Some circumstances (not least Sophie's being left with strangers so that her mother can care for a desperately ill husband) border on fantasy, yet the almost surreal events convey emotional truths with a power that surpasses literal realism. A searching, beautifully written story. (Kirkus Reviews)

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12-year-old Larkin returns home one day to find a baby sitting in a basket in the driveway of her family's house. The only clue to the baby's indentity is a note from the child's mother: "This is Sophie. She is almost a year old and she is good. I will come back for her one day".

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