A compassionate portrait of an elderly - and frustrated - woman adjusting to new town life and finding a new purpose in living.
Illness forces Sylvia Calvert to live with her son Harold, a headmaster in Carshall New Town. At first, Sylvia cannot adjust to the jungle of supermarkets, 10-pin bowling alleys and recreation areas; to the committees and purposeful entertaining involved in the creation of a new society.
Above all, Sylvia can't understand Harold's odd, thrusting idealism and the strange behaviour of her grandchildren.
But a chance meeting and a family crisis give her the chance to fulfil herself ...
- ISBN10 0670419923
- ISBN13 9780670419920
- Publish Date 11 January 1965
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 11 October 2008
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Viking Books
- Format Hardcover
- Language English