The never-before-published novel by Charmian Clift.‘ In those days the end of the morning was always marked by the quarry whistle blowing the noon knock-off.Since everybody was out of bed very early, morning then was a long time, or even, if you came to think about it, a round time -- symmetrical anyway, and contained under a thin, radiant, dome shaped cover ... ' During the years of the Great Depression, Cressida Morley and her eccentric family...