Summary

In this section, the book begins to move towards a climax as relationships between the various characters become strained and the appearance of the “ghost” (202) in the ocean puts everyone on high alert. Grace and Lia exchange passive aggressive remarks about Lia's relationship with Llew. Later, Grace outright yells at Lia about her selfishness, believing that she is putting all of them at risk of disease by being intimate with Llew. Despite her anger, however, she still cares for Lia, and demonstrates this by explaining how she can avoid pregnancy. (The fact that Lia seems to have no concept of how reproduction works is further evidence of the sisters' parents neglect and abuse.) Llew's patience with Lia begins to fray, and then he becomes downright hostile to her when she begs for his attention on the tennis court in front of Gwil.

Lia...