A review by caroparr
God on the Rocks by Jane Gardam

4.0

To call this a small treasure is accurate, but makes it sound sweet, which it is not. Eight-year-old Margaret resents the new baby, enjoys her weekly outings with Lydia, the cheerfully vulgar maid, and stands in awe of her Bible-thumping father. In a mood reminiscent of The Go-Between, she discovers but does not quite understand the world of the adults around her. We readers can piece together things together through interior monologues and conversations, but Gardam teases out the plot obliquely. Hard to do this justice, but it's wonderful.

My copy, the American edition from 1978, is inscribed to me by the author, whom I must have met at a children's literature event. Lucky me, if only I remembered it!