内容简介：
"Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them". Emily has not yet reached the age of judgment. For her, normality consists of contentment and magic and there is no possibility of change in the seeming happiness of her parents - Fen, beautiful and mercurial, and Idle, a hardworking and gentle man. She loves them both and her image of them is together - indivisible, laughing, dancing, making every day scintillate with life. When change does come, Emily is a helpless spectator, confused by the puzzle of ill-fitting events. It is seldom that a book is written about a child's world, for it requires unusual imagination and a sharp delicate touch.