The Year Of The Virgin

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It had never been the best of marriages & over recent years it had become effectively a marriage in name & outward appearance only. Yet, in the autumn of 1960, Winifred & Daniel Coulson presented an acceptable faï ½ade to the outside world, for Daniel has prospered sufficiently to allow them to live at Wearcill House, a mansion situated in the most favoured outskirt of the Tyneside town of Fellburn. Of their children, it was Donald on whom Winifred doted to the point of obsessions, & now he was to be married, Winifred's prime concern was whether Donald was entering wedlock with an unbesmirched purity of body & spirit, for amidst the strange workings of her mind much earlier conceptions of morality & the teachings of the Church held sway. There was something potentially explosive just below the surface of life at Wearcill House, but when that explosion came it was in a totally unforeseeable & devastating form, plunging the Coulsons into an excoriating series of crises out of which would come both good & evil, as well as the true significant of The Year of the Virgins.