Unsuitable arrangements

the long version

Alex, an obstinate American girl, finds herself orphaned and then taken in and brought to England by her sophisticated English uncle. Tall, dark, aloof, mysterious, uncle Evelyn doesn't seem a suitable person to take charge of a child. He introduces her to dashing aunts and eccentric uncles, takes her out to dinner and on trips to the seaside in his sports car. It is the early sixties, and everyone, including the teachers at the boarding school Alex briefly attends, wonders just how suitable this arrangement really is. Can a bachelor, a businessman who drinks Scotch in the evening, take care of a young girl? With humour and empathy, Keverne Barrett shows that arrangements that are totally unacceptable from a conventional point of view are often very acceptable from a child's.