Dinah Brooke

When Lord Jim at Home was first published in 1973, it was described as 'squalid and startling', 'nastily horrific', and a 'monstrous parody' of upper-middle class English life. It is the story of Giles Trenchard, who grows up isolated in an atmosphere of privilege and hidden violence; who goes to war, and returns; and then, one day — like the...

From the 'brilliant forgotten novelist' behind the 'ferocious' Lord Jim at Home (The Telegraph) comes a searing tale of a young woman's unravelling beneath the unforgiving Tuscan sun. Miranda, her husband Louis, and their infant daughter are set to spend the summer in a rented villa in Tuscany. He is a self-assured young American actor; she, a well-educated, well-bred English...