“those made by his brother. It wasn’t as if Edward looked like Maria. That might have been painful but it would have been a start, something to work on . . . She thought: The thing about families is that if we’re lucky we all recognise certain things in one another and then we know how to react. Hal and Jolyon were like Johnny, with bits of Freddy jumbled in, and Kit was like herself, Prue, and Prue’s own mother; there was a certain instability combined with a reckless love of life which could be hazardous. Kit had turned to darling old Clarrie but there had been moments when Prue had feared that her daughter might go off the rails, especially after that terrible business with Jake. Now””
Winning Through
