Chalmers is also the father of a precocious teenage son with whom he communicates more fully via e-mail than in their awkward face-to-face conversations.

He has a precocious son and a splendid wife named, like Eliot's first wife, Vivien, but unlike that woman in virtually every respect.

She smiled like a mother to a precocious son.

Her precocious son Howard read it, too, and understood it better.

The secondary characters - especially Stella's two sisters and her precocious, empathetic son - are sharply realized.

But the world of medicine was never far from the family life; his father took his precocious son on medical rounds.

They'd assumed that their handsome, healthy, precocious older son didn't have any needs.

Not his wife, but his flirting, sexually precocious son.

That novel closed with the aging, ailing hero worrying about his precocious son in England.

Wesley was just the doctor's precocious teenage son.