| The Girl in a Swing is a brilliant departure for:he author of Watership Down and The PlagueDogs--a novel of erotic beauty, terror and sus-?ense. It is the story of a quiet Englishman sweptout of his settled bachelorhood by an exquisite~,oung German woman whose beauty stuns himand whom he impulsively marries--knowingnothing of her family and nothing of her past--committing his life, heart and soul to her, only todiscover, little by little, the nature of the dark-ness and doom she carries with her. From the firstmoment--the narrator alone in his house in theEnglish countryside, remembeting--we are in aworld suffused with beauty and with fear; anaura of pervasive secrets.., the sounds of watercascading, crashing (the story is haunted bythe sea)...the scent of a strange perfume...awoman weeping as if desolation were herdwelling 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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