Anglo-Saxon attitudes
Failure (Psychology)
Middle-aged men
Parent and adult child
Archaeologists
Mistresses
Fathers and sons, fiction
Excavations (Archaeology)
Fathers and sons
Fiction in English
Fiction, psychological
Man-woman relationships, fiction
England, fiction
Man-woman relationships
Psychology
Fiction, general
Fiction
The novel deals with the significance of two connected events that happened on the same day, long before the opening of the novel. The first was the excavation of an ancient and valuable archaeological idol, a phallic figure unearthed from the tomb of an Anglo-Saxon bishop Eorpwald, known as the "Me…
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