Binding: Paperback
Description: The beautiful child of older parents raised on the eastern end of Long Island Theresa is her town's most sought - after babysitter cheerful poised an effortless storyteller a wonder with children and animals. Among her charges this fateful summer is Daisy her younger cousin who has come to spend a few quiet weeks in this bucolic place. While Theresa copes with the challenges presented by the neighborhood's waiflike children the tumultuous households of her employers the attentions of an aging painter and Daisy's fragility of body and spirit her precocious tongue - in - cheek sense of order is tested as she makes the perilous crossing into adulthood. In her deeply etched rendering of all that happened that seemingly idyllic season Alice Mc Dermott once again peers into the depths of everyday life with inimitable insight and grace. As Margaret Atwood wrote in The New York Review of Books Child of My Heart is richly textured and intricately woven A work not only of but about the imagination.
Title: Child Of My Heart A Novel
Author(s): Mcdermott Alice
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9781250888372
Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 6/6/2023
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction