God on the Rocks

Oh, Jane Gardam, you are such a wonderful writer. Your characters are believable, completely human, and your stories speak to the mystery that is life.

God on the Rocks explores the ideas of faith and love and attraction. We meet Margaret, eight, and her nanny, Lydia, as Margaret's mother, Ellie, is recovering from childbirth. We meet Margaret's dad, a fervent fundamentalist Christian. We meet Ellie's friends from her past, intellectual brother and sister Charles and Binkie. We meet Charles and Binky's mother, and her mother's companions. And somehow this all results in a story full of ideas that resonate with us as readers and fellow partakers of this thing that is life.