The Sun in Scorpio Author:Margery Sharp An impudent child with bright red hair and small skinny frame, Cathy Pennon is captivated by life on the Mediterranean island where the sun shines and everything sparkles. Anticipating war, however, Mr. Pennon returns with his family to England, and Cathy settles disconsolately into British, middle-class life. — The Sun in Scorpio, spann... more »ing more than three decades and two world wars, shows Cathy as an unwilling symbol of the "average" Briton's endurance of years of radical historical change. It is a sensitive chronicle of these changes, an absorbing portrayal of two ways of life, and a delightful story filled with irresistible characters endowed with warmth and wit.« less