in the novel again until the latter part. The novel can also be seen as Chatwin's autobiografictional utopia, in which each of the twins represents one of the author's bisexual subject positions. Characters Sam ‘the Wagon’ Jones – the main character’s paternal grandfather. He lived with the family, enjoys playing the violin. Hannah Jones – Sam’s wife. Hostile to her daughter in law. She had 5 children (a daughter who died of consumption, another daughter who married a catholic, the eldest son died in a Rhondda coalpit and her favourite son, Eddie, stole her savings and ran away to Canada. She was left living with Amos). Amos Jones – Main character’s father. Marries the local preachers daughter after her father died and rents the farm The Vision, where the majority of the story takes place. Died from being kicked by a horse. Mary Jones (née Latimer). Daughter of a preacher. She is well educated and well-travelled. She has spent time in India. After her father died she needed to get married to support herself, and so she married Amos, a local farm boy. The have 3 children, twin boys and then a girl. Lewis Jones – Twin with Benjamin, son of Mary and Amos. Benjamin Jones – Twin with Lewis, son of Mary and Amos. Rebecca Jones – daughter of Mary and Amos Jones. Amos doted on her daughter until she ran off with an Irish catholic and moved to America. Jim ‘the Rock’ Watkins – A boy around the same age as the twins, lives next door on a farm called The Rock. Tom ‘the coffin’ Watkins – Local coffin maker. Jim’s father and married to Aggie Watkins. Has an ongoing feud with Amos. Left the family after a fight with his son, leaving Aggie and Jim to run the farm alone. Aggie Watkins – Married to Tom, has a son Jim and daughter Ethel. After Tom disappears, she took in illegitimate kids to raise for money. Ethel Watkins – She has a son called Alfie, who is ‘simple’ and dies in childhood in a local bog. Rosie Fifield – Lewis has a crush on her as they were childhood playmates. She instead decides to pursue Reggie Bickerton, who has recently returned from the war, he is from a local aristocrat family and wealthy. She begins working for him, he seduces her and proposes but refuses to tell his