Living thing. Bayette A.S.

“Living thing” is the second novel “Quartet of Frederica”, which is perhaps the main work of the cavalier lady of the Order of the British Empire of Anthony Susan Bayette. Tetralogy was written for a quarter of a century, and its plot also has a quarter -century coverage, and the first two novels came out before the “possessed” Buker Prize of the international bestseller, and the third and fourth - after. So, Frederika Potter begins to study at Cambridge, frantically greedy for knowledge, to an independent, adulthood, to love - exactly at that moment of history, when traditionally isolated Britain receives a massive vaccine in European culture and begins to change irreversibly. While her older sister Stefani donates to study and scientific career for the sake of the family, and the younger brother Marcus recovered from a nervous breakdown, Frederick, in contrast to Monet and Mallarm, who insisted on “the happiness of a gradual guessing of the subject”, prefers to call a spade a spade. And neither Frederick, nor Stefani, nor Marcus know what the tragedy awaits them in the future...