Kitty

by Margaret Bacon

Kitty is the child of an unhappy marriage. Sent to boarding school, she is still aware of the destruction that is being wrought at home. Instinctively she fights to defend the weaker partner - it is a fight she is doomed to lose and her story unfolds with a compelling sense of tragic inevitability. Nevertheless there is comedy too; Kitty's humour and self-awareness are as moving as the tragedy of her situation. Margaret Bacon conveys with great insight the lonely and often desperate world of the solitary adolescent.

Hardcover

First published September 1, 1996

About the author

Margaret Bacon was brought up in the Yorkshire Dales, and educated at The Mount School, York and at Oxford. She taught history before her marriage to a Civil Engineer whose profession entailed much travel and frequent moves of house. Her first book, 'Journey to Guyana', was an account of two years spent in South America. Her subsequent books, including one children's novel, have all been fiction. She has two daughters and is now settled in Wiltshire.