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Family Matters
Series: British Library Crime Classics
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Family Matters
This richly characterised and elegantly written crime novel from 1933 is a true forgotten classic.
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The characters are quite extraordinarily living... A most original and grimly farcical situation. - Dorothy L. Sayers
Robert Arthur Kewdingham is an eccentric failure of a man. In middle age, he retreats into a private world, hunting for Roman artefacts and devoting himself to bizarre mystical beliefs. Robert's wife, Bertha, feels that there are few things more dreadful than a husband who will persist in making a fool of himself in public.
Their marriage consists of horrible quarrels, futile arguments, and incessant bickering. Scarcely any friends will visit the Kewdinghams in their peaceful hometown, Shufflecester. Everything is wrong - and with the entrance of John Harrigall, a bohemian bachelor from London who catches Bertha's eye, things take a turn for the worse. Soon, deep passions and resentments shatter the calm facade of the Kewdinghams' lives.
This richly characterised and elegantly written crime novel from 1933 is a true forgotten classic.
Family Matters by Anthony Rolls offers a darkly comedic exploration of a disintegrating marriage and the sinister undercurrents of middle-class life.
Series: British Library Crime Classics
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Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780712356695
Publisher: British Library Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 10 March 2017
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: The British Library Publishing Division
Illustration: Illustrations
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 130.0mm
Height: 190.0mm
Weight: 0g
About the Author
Anthony Rolls was a pseudonym of C.E. Vulliamy (1886-1971), a biographer, soldier and archaeologist of distinction who also wrote ten crime novels, four of which were published during the golden age of British detective fiction between the world wars.
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