My Little Sister

Bettina points to a stranger’s jewelled watch—and her mother comes running as if the house were on fire. From that instant, the sisters learn that no one outside their family must touch the golden-haired child.

In Elizabeth Robins’s novel, childhood stretches across the green heath around Duncombe, where the sisters roam as if the land were theirs and a passing hunt seems to rise out of the horizon. The older sister remembers Bettina as everyone’s darling, bright with song and charm, while their beautiful, watchful mother teaches them to distrust strangers and guard their little kingdom. But the narrator’s first words falter between “is” and “was,” hinting that these sunlit memories have a shadow. What changed the way she must tell Bettina’s story?

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