J: The Time of the Angels (1966)

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79,495 words

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✝️Carel Fisher, an eccentric Anglican priest who has lost his faith

📔Muriel Fisher, his 24yo daughter, aspiring poet, sardonic

👧Elizabeth Fisher, his 19yo niece, a semi-invalid recluse (corset for 'slipped disc') spoiled

🏫Marcus Fisher, headmaster of small school, writing a philosophy book

Julian Fisher, Elizabeth's father, deceased

🧹Pattie O'Driscoll, his half-Jamaican housekeeper and former mistress

⛏️Eugene Peshkov, a Russian émigré who works as the rectory's janitor

🕺Eugene's son Leo, blond, a student at a technical college, s&m w/Marcus?

Mrs Anthea Barlow

💁Norah Shadox-Brown, do-gooder

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Solitudinem fecerunt (pacem appelunt) = They made a desert (and called it peace)

Cousinage, dangereux voisinage = cousinhood [is a] dangerous neighborhood

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'Chloe Boughton Leigh' by Gwen John

 

Harry Peccinotti cover for Penguin 1970

 

 

 

Annunciatory Angel by Fra Angelico

 

 

 

Trinity (Andrei Rublev)