Description
When people play the game ‘Name three Or four persons whom you would choose to have with you on a desert island’, they never choose the Delaneys. They don’t even choose us one by one as individuals. have earned, not always fairly we consider, the
reputation of being difficult guests.
Maria, Niall and Celia have grown up in the shadow of their famous parents — their father -a flamboyant singer, and their mother a talented dancer. Now pursuing their own creative dreams, all three siblings feel an undeniable bond, but it is Maria and Niall who share the secret of their parents’ pasts.
Alternately comic and poignant, The Parasites is based on the artistic milieu its author knew best, and draws the reader effortlessly into that
magical world.
‘Has all the du Maurier magnetism. The backward glances at the careless careers of the young Delaneys reveal vistas of a vanished Europe rich in colour and throbbing with gaiety’ Ivor Brown
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