Crusoe's daughter
(Book)

"This edition includes a never before published introduction by the author."--Cover p. [4]

When Polly Flint was six, she was sent to live with her two pious aunts in a yellow house close to the Irish Sea. To the lonely orphan this bleak coast of England was so isolated she might have been marooned on an island. For Polly, the world of books, especially Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, with whose hero she will conduct a lifelong dialogue, became a source of emotional and intellectual nourishment. Soon the worlds of imagination and reality had only a thin divide between them, with the former becoming a form of religion to her. And on that barren strip of land Polly remained for more than eighty years as the twentieth century raged; lamplight and Victorian order giving way to chaos and nuclear dread.