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Books: The trials of a family man Charles Darwin's great-great-grandson has written a poignant account of a devastating episode in the scientist's life, says Mark Bostridge

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From: The Independent - London
Date: 20010429
Author:Mark Bostridge

Love is dangerous. Whoever it's for, however reciprocated, it leaves you wide open and vulnerable. Lesley Glaister's Now You See Me is a beautiful bombshell of a story, a painful, gorgeous romance about self-preservation, trust and loss. Like love, it is glorious. And it will break your heart.

Lamb has no one; she prefers it that way. Once hospitalised, then homeless, she now cleans other people's houses, and lives secretly in an elderly client's cellar. Her mental health may tighten but will not snap; Lamb has secrets, and scars to prove it, and the price of falling is perilously high. ...

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