From the celebrated author of The Tooth Fairy and Smoking the Poppy, an epic saga of family, love, war and magic. Martha is the matriarch of a family of seven daughters, passing on Frank, who was born in the last year of the war to the emotionally unstable Cassie, who associates herself with Lady Godiva. Frank communicates with the invisible Man behind the glass and learns embalming, gets used to the commune and tries to cope with the rudiments of the gift of foresight...