Eating Grapes Downwards

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Eating Grapes Downwards is written by Jill Roe and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0340682809 (ISBN 10) and 9780340682807 (ISBN 13).

Alma and Coral had grown up together in an autonomous, conspiratorial world of adult mystery and children's submission. As they grew older, each regarded the other as an impediment from which there seemed to be no escape. So perhaps it was inevitable that they were to inflict a similar relationship on their daughters, Dorcas and Lally. For Coral, Lally is an investment rather than a daughter to love and cherish. As she waits for her investment to mature, she practises petty acts of calculated cruelty and humiliation on Lally's friend Dorcas, whose mother is struggling to make ends meet after her husband's death. But as the girls mature, the balance of power subtly shifts. And when, during those long, sunny Devon summers, they turn their attention to young men, it is Lally who suffers the consequences of Coral's legacy.