"We Think the World of You "combines acute social realism and dark fantasy, and
was described by J.R. Ackerley as "a fairy tale for adults." Frank, the narrator
, is a middle-aged civil servant, intelligent, acerbic, self-righteous, angry. H
e is in love with Johnny, a young, married, working-class man with a sweetly eas
ygoing nature. When Johnny is sent to prison for committing a petty theft, Frank
gets caught up in a struggle with Johnny's wife and parents for access to him.
Their struggle finds a strange focus in Johnny's dog--a beautiful but neglected
German shepherd named Evie. And it is she, in the end, who becomes the improbabl
e and undeniable guardian of Frank's inner world.
