![]() When a smell begins to emanate from the cellar, the children tell him their dead dog, Cosmo, is encased in the cement. Derek gets a hint that something is hidden in their cellar, and becomes more and more interested while the children attempt to hide it from him. When Julie begins to date a young man called Derek, aged 23, and invites him to their house, Jack feels jealous and shows hostility towards him. Sexual tension between Jack and his older sister, Julie, becomes increasingly obvious as they take over the roles of "mother" and "father" in the house, which is gradually deteriorating into squalor. Jack then mentions how he longs to do the same to his older sister but it is not allowed. Jack describes how, when they were younger, he and Julie would play doctor with their younger sister, although he is aware that their version of the game occasionally broke boundaries. The narrator is Jack (14 at the start of the book, becoming 15 later), and his siblings are Julie (17), Sue (13), and Tom (6). ![]() The children then attempt to live on their own. In order to avoid being taken into foster care, the children hide their mother's death from the outside world by encasing her corpse in cement in the cellar. Soon after, the children's mother also dies. ![]() In The Cement Garden, the father of four children dies. Home The Cement Garden Wikipedia: Plot summary ![]()
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