The Unwise Monkey

Clara, a thirteen-year-old child, was plucked out of a French Catholic orphanage and sent to her mother's family in Switzerland. The Second World War had recently ended, and her French step-family was in great difficulty. Clara was very eager to go, as the thought of eventually living with her real family had sustained the child throughout her war childhood.

However, it was soon obvious that the family could not accept Clara. They did not know what to make of a girl who seemed to be only in...