Bri, a schoolteacher and his wife Sheila have a 10-year old spastic child named Josephine, who is completely helpless and utterly dependent. Bri hides behind irony and sarcasm. Sheila believes the child is her penance for a promiscuous past and soldiers on devotedly with their little "Joe Egg". Well-meaning family and friends offer sundry solutions, everything from adoption to euthanasia but ultimately Bri finds he cannot continue and leaves Sheila and Joe behind.-4 women, 2 men
- ISBN10 0571083684
- ISBN13 9780571083688
- Publish Date October 1967
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 18 October 2003
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Faber & Faber
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 87
- Language English