| | Amazon.ca: Queen Lear: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) |
 | | Through eight-year-old Nicandra Forester's eyes, we see the "Day of Disaster" when her beautiful, beloved, but capricious "Maman" absconds with both the family's dashing land steward and her widowed sister's jewels. |
 | | Nicandra's "silent little father" Sir Dermot, who named his daughter after a horse, is emotionally remote, preoccupied like most of his class with horse breeding and racing. |
 | | In contrast, I can't care about the fate of Nicandra in "Queen Lear." Molly Keane seems to attempt a repeat of the magnificent knockout punch she delivered in "Good Behavior" (an ending which perfectly and shockingly fulfills and transforms the beginning, built logically and inevitably on everything in between). |
| www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0525247998 (754 words) |