Rosalind Kemp is the youngest in a family of sisters. She lives a comfortablelife in a small town in Ontario. Ros is active loving and artistic. And shehas seco... » 

Rosalind Kemp is the youngest in a family of sisters. She lives a comfortablelife in a small town in Ontario. Ros is active loving and artistic. And shehas second sight. It is a part of her nature with which she has troublecoming to terms sometimes it is nothing more than a pleasant parlor tricklike knowing that King Edward will abdicate sometimes it is a curse that makesher feel freakish and sometimes it is just plain terrifying. Ros trieseverything she can to suppress the gift and subsequently herself but nothingworks. If she is going to live her life fully she will have to come to termswith every part of her being just as everyone must. This brilliant novelis Julie Johnston at her very best it is funny frightening and painfullyinsightful. From the Hardcover edition. «