The Vulture
by Catherine Heath
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It displays Heath's accuracy of eye and ear, her narrative gift, and her felicities of style. ... The powerful theme -- that in our country retreat we cannot escape from ourselves into a present tense that appears, comfortingly, to be the historic past -- steers the narrative forward with a compelling energy.
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- Original publication date
- 1974
- People/Characters
- John Barton; Muriel Barton; Rosemary Barton; Victoria Harvey
- Important places
- Witterden
- First words
- The lane to the kennels wound down from the low ridge between hedgerows glazed with the first green of spring.
- Quotations
- It had never occurred to me as a child that any ordinary family had two hot-water bottles. It would have seemed as preposterous as having two bathrooms.
You can go back to Wittenden and say Mrs Barton will be there soon." She looked at me. "A shilling will be quite enough." Luckily I had only a tenpenny bit, which seemed to me a more reasonable recompense for taking up a chi... (show all)ld's free Saturday afternoon. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)So I opened the door and let her in.
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