#mrs caliban

Mrs Caliban. Rachel Ingalls. MRS CALIBAN. London, Boston: Faber and Faber, [1982]. First edition. Original dust jacket. 

“Dorothy, a failed mother and neglected, wife, secretly takes in Larry, an anthropoid amphibian who has escaped from the institute for Oceanographic Research and is being sought for the deaths of two of his keepers … A sensitive portrait of alienation and disaffection with darkly fantastic overtones.”