THEY CAME LIKE SWALLOWS

Elizabeth Morison is an ordinary woman. Yet to eight-year-old Bunny, his mother is the centre of his universe. To his older brother, Robert, she is someone he must protect against the dangers of the outside world. And to James Morison, his wife is the foundation o n which his family rests and life without her is unimaginable.William Maxwell's unique and moving family portrait confirms his reput ation as one of the twentieth century's finest novelists.