![]() ![]() ![]() But it is Miss Murdoch's special gift that makes her people real and sympathetic as well as bulls-eye targets for a most Jively wit. Naturally these and other less sensational but very amusing characters and the hothouse atmosphere of a whacky English Brooks Farm provide ample opportunity for satire. The naive college boy eager to partake of the good and pure life seduces a visitor's willing wife, takes part in a hoax concerning the convent's new bell that ruins the community and becomes involved with the director in a fashion that forever demolishes his hope of being a priest. ![]() The very beautiful girl whose bitions to enter the convent make her the pride of the community turns out to be a schizophrenic in love with the director (who had seduced her brother). The community's director, a devout and intelligent young man, keeps trying to convince himself that his lapses into homosexuality are not really sufficient moral cause to prevent his becoming a priest. Not since the early Huxley novels have such a varied, neurotic and strange group of characters enacted their amorous and philosophical adventures against the mellow background of a stately English home. An Anglican lay community on an estate attached to a convent of Anglican nuns provides the setting for some quite melodramatic happenings-suicide, a wrecked marriage, an antiquarian cause celebre- among the small and eccentric band of idealists. ![]()
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