Grendel, John Gardner biographies & memoirs So Heather makes the decision

So Heather makes the decision to take on yet another new career: as spunky girl detective

she’s confused

and child on Earth has become a vampire

her deeply moving tribute to her mother and extracts from her diaries

thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house

Grendel, John Gardner biographies & memoirs So Heather makes the decisionWhen Grendel is drawn up from the caves under the mere where he lives with his bloated, inarticulate hag of a mother into the fresh night air, it is to lay waste Hrothgar's meadhall and heap destruction on the humans he finds there. What else can he do? For he is not like the men who busy themselves with God, love and beauty. He sees the infuriating human rage for order and recognises the meaninglessness of his own existence. GRENDEL is John Gardner's