Description
Published in 1939, A Family and a Fortune is one of Ivy Compton Burnett’s twenty novels often described as mordantly witty, surgical explorations, written almost entirely in the form of elegantly expressed dialogue, of the painful vicissitudes of comfortably well-off country gentry at a late Victorian/early Edwardian period of English history. Hilary Mantel refers to each of her novels as ‘a gavotte on needles’. The plot is complicated and eventful, concerning the dramatic impact on the Gaveston family (and their circle) of a large inheritance; there are several deaths, a broken engagement and various other twists and narrative turns. This is the first edition in good condition.
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