TY - BOOK AU - Cowley, Joy, TI - Nest in a falling tree SN - 9780908652082 AV - PZ4.C8755 Ne3 U1 - 823.2 20 PY - 1967/// CY - London PB - Secker & Warburg KW - Families KW - Fiction KW - Mothers and daughters KW - New Zealand fiction KW - 20th century N2 - For many years Maura Prince - an adopted child - has singlehandedly looked after her blind and crippled mother in the big house on the outskirts of Wellington. Then one day she gets her mother's permission to employ a 17 year-old grocery assistant to help in the garden on his off-day. 'Red', as the boy is known, is an utterly new experience. He awakes in Maura a protective affection which rapidly develops into passion. When her mother is taken to hospital Maura endeavours to seduce Red ER -