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Henry Green considered *Concluding* the finest of all his books. *Concluding*—set in a single summer day—has at its heart old Mr. Rock, a famous retired scientist who lives in a cottage on the grounds of a girls' boarding school. Living with him is Elizabeth, his somewhat unstrung granddaughter; his white cat; his white goose; and Daisy, his white pig. Miss Edge and Miss Baker—the two inseparable spinster harpies who run the school—scheme to dislodge him from the cottage. *Concluding* opens with the discovery that two of the schoolgirls have vanished in the night, leading to searching, eavesdropping, worrying, jostling, and giggling. A love affair, a dance, that magnificent pig, small joys, and low ambitions all stream together, crowding up to the reader's eye, as Henry Green brews up an enchanting, heartbreaking, and darkly sunny novel.