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292 pages, Hardcover
First published August 29, 1978
When Marcia finds a plastic bag labeled “To avoid danger of suffocation keep this wrapper away from babies and children,” the narrator adds, “They could have said from middle-aged and elderly persons too, who might well have an irresistible urge to suffocate themselves.”
Offered the option of moving into a care home, Letty thinks “better to lie down in the wood under the beech leaves and bracken and wait quietly for death.”
'Father G's coming in for a bite before the PCC meeting and I'll do one of my specials - baked beans on toast with a poached egg on top.'