Just when Liz is most desperate for support and nurturing, her parents desert her.Īcross the street another drama is unfolding. The tension around this erupts into fierce arguments between Liz's mother and father, and their eventual separation. Liz's father never had a good experience with organized religion anyway, but this spiritualist church sends him over the edge, especially when Liz goes along to services too. Almost worse is that Liz's mother has become impossibly crippled by grief: she is withdrawn, angry, and now caught up in a strange spiritualist church where she believes her dead mother (Liz's grandmother) speaks to her. The narrator, Liz, has just suffered the death of her energetic, loving grandmother, which is difficult. We look forward to Wittlinger's novels, and this one is outstanding.
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