Children
Edith Wharton
Paperback
(Virago Pr, March 1, 2001)
First published in 1928, this is a novel about a man's desire for a young girl. On a cruise ship in the Mediterranean, an unmarried engineer in his forties encounters a wild, ebullient menagerie of stepbrothers and stepsisters, kept together as a family by the eldest - the lovely Judith, aged 15.