The Girl Green as Elderflower (Masterplots II: British and Commonwealth Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Randolph Stow
- First Published: 1980
- Type of Work: Symbolic realism
- Time of Work: The early 1960’s
- Setting: Suffolk, England
- Principal Characters: Crispin Clare, Alicia Clare, Marco (Mark) Clare, Mikey Clare, Lucy Clare, Amabel, Jim (Jacques) Maunoir, Matthew Perry, A foreign-looking Girl
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction, Frame story
- Subjects: 1960’s, Children, Family or family life, Self-discovery, Love or romance, Nature, Writing, England or English people, Folklore, Spiritualism, Malaria
- Locales: England, Suffolk, England
The Novel
Crispin Clare awakens in an old house in Suffolk, the home of his ancestors, to which he has returned to recuperate from a serious but unspecified illness (the reader later learns that it was malaria, which eventually provoked attempted suicide). Looking out his bedroom window, he sees a world covered with snow, while on his wall hangs a painting, done by his widowed cousin Alicia Clare, showing the same view on a beautiful summer’s day. Although it is winter and freezing in the cottage, it is also a morning suffused with “the new year’s astonishing first white...
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