Word: shopgirls
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Dates: during 1981-1981
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...better. A 50-year-old dressmaker in Folkestone married Tyte in 1965, let him do the shopping and the housework and then threw him out for unspecified acts. He then enchanted two elderly sisters in Cheshire, moved in with them and stole their money. In London he seduced a shopgirl who, twelve years after she bore his daughter, still hopes he will marry...
Scenes of suburban serenity are offset by vignettes of urban depravity: Tyte drinking tea, chatting and gardening in Stone St. Martin is juxtaposed with Tyte turning tricks in a London parking lot. The most pathetic victims of his lies are the seduced shopgirl and his neglected daughter, the former sliding into alcoholism, the latter turning into a potentially dangerous sociopath like her father. Trevor has an uncanny understanding of love, delusion, hope and, in Tyte's case, the buried anger that "had driven him in search of presents." It is a tribute to the author's moral instincts...