A House and Its Head
Author: Ivy Compton-Burnett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Duncan Edgeworth rules over his family with steely authority in a country village of idyllic beauty, rapacious gossip and motives of the purest malignity. A crowd of neighbours watches on as Duncan's scandalous remarriage sparks the chaos that will engulf his family and set off a battle of wills in their tangled community. Unfolding almost entirely in dialogue of vicious wit and layered implications, A House and its Head is a...
