God on the Rocks

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize: "So charming a novel that you don't want to give away a single one of the many twists of its plot" (The New York Times).

Originally published in Great Britain in 1978, the novel describes Margaret Marsh's coming of age one summer between the world wars. Caught in the backwash of a fervently religious father, a mother bitterly nostalgic for what might have been, the tea and sympathy of some thoroughly secular neighbors and the bawdy jokes of her nanny...