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<blockquote> <p>Dear Gert,<br> If you won't write to me, then could you send me some money?<br> I believe you have a good job. A few hundred pounds would be helpful.<br> Don't send cash, as the post often gets stolen. Send a cheque.<br> I am your mother.<br> Jean</p> </blockquote> <p>Gert Hardcastle is thirty-something and unlucky in love. She is also estranged from her mother, Jean. As <b>Crocodile Soup</b> opens, she thinks she has found "the One"—the enigmatic Eva, who serves coffee in the cafeteria in the museum where Gert works as a curator cataloging Egyptian artifacts. As Gert embarks on her hilarious and poignant pursuit of Eva, she looks back on her eccentric childhood and her relationship with Jean through a series of vivid and surreal flashbacks.</p> <p>As she revisits her past, Gert brings to life the bizarre and endearing members of her family: her obsessive twin, Frank, with whom she communicates telepathically; her father, George, who vanishes to Africa to salvage the family crocodile farm; her vain, neglectful mother, Jean; and the family ghost—a Victorian poet who haunts the attic. Gert's story is punctuated by terse, intriguing letters from jean to which she does

Author

Darling, Julia, 1956-

Publisher

New York: Ecco Press

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780060196028

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities