Ann Packers The Children's Crusade revolves around a difficult relationship between parents and children. Photo: ALICJA COLON/Unsplash.com (Royalty-free image, can use anywhere)
Bill and Penny Blair had a plan for the perfect life in late 1950s California: Build a home on a piece of oak-dominated land in Portola Valley and a life around Bill’s career as a paediatrician. There would, of course, be children.
“Penny was an only child who for company during her school years had drawn pictures of the children she expected to bear,” author Ann Packer writes in this graceful, poignant novel.
