<i>WorldCat:</i> The Blessed Virgin's deliverance of a prophecy to a peasant girl in Fatima in 1914 is followed years later by signs and omens including worldwide droughts and famines that signify its imminent fulfillment.
The author's later work, Cradle and All (2000), is based on, and includes scenes plus characters from this story. (Source: Front jacket flyleaf of the Little, Brown and Company hc edition of Cradle and All.)