The Age Of Miracles Author:Ellen Gilchrist Ellen Gilchrist is a supreme observer of family behaviour at its least conventional: children who kidnap and drug their mother to prevent her facelift; a small town that breaks out into mayhem and live jazz when a man refuses to take his divorce lying down. Here is staunch individualism at any age. The young daughter of an English department h... more »ead takes a stand against wakes for dead poets to unexpectedly comic effect; and a wealthy middle-aged physician tries to fit his new middle-aged paramour into the chintzy Laura Ashley mould of his dead wife.« less