Oxford, 1968

Jacqueline Winwar
Lyon Bowman: neuropsychology professor

Jacqueline convinces Lyon to accept her as a post-doctoral student.

"It would be an interesting physiological experiment to find out what it is in people's eyes that shows you they aren't really interested in you."

" 'I see. I'm not looking at you. Or rather, I'm looking at you, but not attending to you.'
'Yes. And it's my life we're discussing."

"She thought, we shan't ever be able to sort out all of what happens when two people talk to each other."

Jacqueline continues to make progress with her plans for the future.

Cedar Mount: a hospital for the insane & mentally ill

Kieran Quarrell: a senior psychiatrist
Elvet Gander: a psychoanalyst

The two psychiatrists exchange correspondence about two of their patients.

The correspondence (quickly) introduces a number of new characters to the story:

• Josh Lamb: he is the inmate that was nameless a couple of chapters earlier.
• a Quaker group called the Spirit's Tigers:
  • Paul Ottokar (Zag): singer, John's twin brother
  • Richmond Bly: an art historian
  • Frank & Milly Fisher: founding members
  • Patience Coope
  • Brinsley Ludd: social worker
  • Canon Adelbert Holly: Church of England
  • Gideon Farrar: founder of Children of Joy
  • Clemency Farrar: his wife
  • Daniel Orton: priest
  • Ellie
  • Brenda Pincher

There are now more characters than the story will actually use. Now to see which ones appear in future episodes.

Oxford, 1968

Jacqueline
Marcus: mathematician
Luk Lysgaard-Peacock: naturalist
Lucy Nighby
Gunner Nighby

Jacqueline, Marcus and Luk are in a field observing snails when one of Lucy Nighby's sheep comes up with a lot of blood on it. They follow the sheep back to the chicken battery where they find Lucy also covered in blood and in a daze. They then find her husband Gunner, also bloody, claiming that she tried to kill him. They return to the house where they find the three children all bloody and dazed but still alive. It is not clear what happened.

A check of google using "chicken battery" reveals that it refers to the small cages that chickens are kept in.

There is a clear statement that this violence is just the beginning of what is to come.

Cedar Mount: a hospital for the insane & mentally ill

Josh Lamb
Lucy Nighby

Lucy has been placed in Cedar Mount while the police try to determine what had happened at the farm.

This is a comparatively long chapter. The sudden violence is totally unexpected in this tranquil English countryside. It appears that psychoanalysis is likely to form an important part of the story. It has just a glimmer of an American soap program.

I am still pleased with the better understanding of the story that I have because I am making these notes.