We’re in a sumptuous house in Ullswater in the Lake District where brittle pandemonium rules. Edward has two mixed-heritage daughters, Hilda and Asa, aged 17 and twentysomething, from his first wife, who killed herself for reasons unknown. Implicit guilt over this, and his remarriage to the ethereally-cheekboned Ellida, enables the girls to rule the roost, bamboozling him into endless runs to the local shop to keep them in wine.
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