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Jenner Ransfield, a man endowed with a brilliant academic mind, personal magnetism, but no self-control, tormented by demons of Laurentian sexuality and Calvinist upbringing, fumes out his existence on a farm in Someset, teaching at an Agricultural College, and sporadically tyrannizing his family - his sad, suppressed wife Elspeth, who lives inside a romantic ballad and thinks of Jenner as her demon lover, and his two extraordinary children - May Margaret who carves wonders in wood that no man must see, and Robin who lives to keep the World Wide Web out of the Devil's hands. Into this dark world beams Theodora Potts, blond curls, white smile, pretty and an Australian veterinary scientist, who knows it all. She intends to study the harvesting of bull semen with the great Dr Ransfield, but nothing goes according to her plan, from the moment there slides into her life and her bed Fergal, an urban warrrior whose special form of protest is to hang naked in tree-tops. The cast is now complete for a black comedy of almost Shakespearean richness.
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Jenner Ransfield is a tormented, brilliant academic with great personal magnetism but no self-control. He teaches at a lowly agricultural college and lives on a farm in Somerset where he sporadically tyrannises his sad, suppressed wife and two extraordinary children.
Into this dark world enters Theodora Potts, a pretty, neat, Australian veterinary scientist who knows it all and intends to study the harvesting of bull semen with Dr Ransfield. But nothing seems to go according to plan from the moment she meets Fergal, an urban warrior whose protests involve hanging naked in tree-tops.
A black comedy that is as original as it is delightful, The Understanding of Jenner Ransfield confirms Imogen de la Bere as an exceptionally gifted novelist.
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