I remember Frankie's reaction that Laurie is too old, and I also remember that Bunny's response made sense to me and seemed perfectly reasonable. That jewel alone makes this book among my treasured reads. THAT line has stayed with me for 50 years, and I have always remembered learning it from that book, not from the complete Ode to a Grecian Urn. I searched for this title today because the Keats poem that she quotes came to mind: "Beauty is truth, truth beauty-that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know." I read Brief Flower when I was a teenager, and it made quite an impact on me, because much of it resonated with my own upbringing and loneliness and search for love and belonging and unwanted advances and forbidden feelings and and and. Of the Yorkshire coast and filled my heart and mind with a richness that has never The past stories of Greece and Rome that came tumultuously alive in the keen air To read any book in his possession, and of ten spent hours alone with me, walkingĪlong the beach or climbing the cliff paths, telling me strange stories out of Made almost impossible demands on my strength and patience but he allowed me Laurie teased me, ignored me, sometimes treated me like a baby and at others Madge grumbled and whined, but she also made me laugh a lot. Take off his belt to me but never without real provocation, which I was honestĮnough to admit. When Laurie had taken too much to drink on market days he might If I "answered back" I was either ignored or I had
If I chose to stay out late and thus missed They had little of the freedom I enjoyed,
Pram-loads of babies, being called in to meals in the middle of games or packed They always seemed to be running errands, minding Grandparents, aunts and uncles and any number of brothers and sisters.
Most of the children I knew had fathers and mothers, Migraines but with a charming pluck of her own. Girl is Frankie, a neighbour girl and Bunny's devoted friend, plagued by Vaguest notion of what that means or why anyone would care about it. She is in fact a bastard, though she has only the Laurie and Madge, who have raised her from infancy but who are, she already A life that is not without its problems, to be sure. With enormous self-possession and a delightfully philosophical outlook on her Introduction to Bunny, the novel's narrator (narrating the story from theĭistant future when she is already an elderly woman), a spitfire wild child It's a brilliant scene, and one which gives a perfect Having been told by a surly servant that the approaching storm signifies some Page, in which two little girls fearfully but spunkily await the end of the world, Genre I often don't particularly like, but here I was grabbed from the first First, the positive, of which there is much.
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