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The Girl in a Swing is a brilliant departure for
:he author of Watership Down and The Plague
Dogs--a novel of erotic beauty, terror and sus-
?ense. It is the story of a quiet Englishman swept
out of his settled bachelorhood by an exquisite
~,oung German woman whose beauty stuns him
and whom he impulsively marries--knowing
nothing of her family and nothing of her past--
committing his life, heart and soul to her, only to
discover, little by little, the nature of the dark-
ness and doom she carries with her. From the first
moment--the narrator alone in his house in the
English countryside, remembeting--we are in a
world suffused with beauty and with fear; an
aura of pervasive secrets.., the sounds of water
cascading, crashing (the story is haunted by
the sea)...the scent of a strange perfume...a
woman weeping as if desolation were her
dwelling place.
The man whom we see astonished into love
is Alan Desland--cultivated, intelligent, nice.
Convinced since boyhood that passion and the
sensual life are not for him, he has committed
himself to his bachelorhood, and to the manage-
ment of the family business in fine ceramics and
rare china which is the happy obsession of his
days. Until suddenly, on a trip to Copenhagen,
he meets her--K~ithe. Her beauty is an arrow
through his heart. She moves within a halo, a
nimbus, of erotic energy. This man, who has
scarcely recognized his own starvation, dissolves
into love, amazed that she wants him also, that
she so quickly accepts him--and becomes, as his
wife, even more alluring, both mysterious and
open, possessing a profound dignity yet capable
of entrancing vulgarities, mistress of a hundred
ways of making love, knowing Alan s body bet-
ter than he himself knows it. And we see how
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