Charlie Kollock grows up in post-war Delaware with a distant father, and a mother who is 'delicate'.
He goes to Oxford to study, where he forms relationships with several woman: Elaine, the daughter of a farmer, whom he met as a child; Miriam, a young Australian Jewish girl, whose family returns to England when her grandfather dies; and Sophia, a student cellist of American Jewish heritage.
Woven through these relationships is that with his mother, a disturbingly magnetic woman wh.
| Woman | Elaine the daughter of a farmer whom he met as a child |
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All-read-e The daughter of abraham, paperback/philip s. newey
