![]() It's not a bad book, but it's not Molly Keane's best. ![]() This setup had potential, but the characters did not seem genuine to me and at some point I stopped caring much about how the central conflict would be resolved. At first the visit seems amiable, but gradually we see Leda is there on a vindictive mission. They play up to that, even as they cattily acknowledge Leda has not aged gracefully. Leda is now blind, which means she can only imagine her cousins as they looked many years ago. Suddenly into their lives comes Leda, a cousin who spent the summer with them once in their childhood. Each of them also has some sort of physical affliction: Jasper lost an eye as a child May has a deformed hand. June is a horsewoman and tends to the animals on the estate, and May is a self-styled horticulturist, president of the local garden society. ![]() Jasper is the family cook and gardener, taking great pride in the fruits of his labor. April, the oldest, is the only one who ever married, and at 74 has long been widowed. Time After Time is a quirky story of four siblings: Jasper and his sisters April, May, and June, all elderly and living together in their family home in Ireland. ![]()
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