An unusual offering from Ruth Park. When Geraldine, the youngest of the beautiful Pond sisters announces that she has had a vision of the Blessed Virgin, her family is shot from mundane middle-class existence into the glare of publicity and hysteria. The formerly peaceful and close-knit family is suddenly full of mistrust and tensions. First published in 1961, it is just as valid today when images of the Virgin Mary are to be regularly found in toasted sandwiches and fence posts.