The Daughter of Abraham

Charlie Kollock grows up in post-war Delaware with a distant father and a mother who is delicate.He goes to Oxford to study where he forms relationships with several woman: Elaine the daughter of a farmer whom he met as a child; Miriam a young Australian Jewish girl whose family returns to England when her grandfather dies; and Sophia a student cellist of American Jewish heritage.Woven through these relationships is that with his mother a disturbingly magnetic woman whose grasp of reality is fragile. Her visions and dreams form the lens through which Charlie views the world. Chief among these are her visions concerning the enigmatic Daughter of Abraham with whom Charlies destiny she is convinced is linked. Charlie cannot shake off these visions. Is this one of his mothers delusions? If not who is this Daughter of Abraham?