A thrilling psychological game of morality and justice by one of England's greatest novelists. Margaret Drabble is the author of 12 novels, including "The Realms of Gold" and "The Gates of Ivory".
In a ?profoundly moving, intellectually acute? novel (Philadelphia Inquirer) that is ?as meticulous as Jane Austen, as deadly as Evelyn Waugh? (Los Angeles Times), Margaret Drabble conjures up a retired writer besieged by her three grasping children in this dazzling, wickedly gothic tale.
In a ?profoundly moving, intellectually acute? novel (Philadelphia Inquirer) that is ?as meticulous as Jane Austen, as deadly as Evelyn Waugh? (Los Angeles Times), Margaret Drabble conjures up a retired writer besieged by her three grasping children in this dazzling, wickedly gothic tale.