Kathleen Farrell

Broschiertes Buch

Mistletoe Malice

Beschreibung

In a seaside cottage, one family reunites for Christmas. While snow falls, a tyrannical widowed matriarch presides over her unruly brood. Her niece tends to her whims, but fantasises about eloping; and as more guests arrive, each bringing their secret truths and dreams, the Christmas tree explodes, a brawl erupts and 'midwinter madness' climaxes.

Autor

Kathleen Farrell was born in London in 1912 and educated at a convent school. Her first book, Johnny's Not Home from the Fair (1942), was written while working for the wartime secretary-general of the Labour party, after which she founded a prestigious literary agency, eventually sold to a rival firm. Farrell lived in Hampstead for twenty years with her partner Kay Dick - reviewer, editor and author of They (1977) - in a literary circle including Ivy Compton-Burnett, Stevie Smith and Olivia Manning. She wrote stories as well as five more novels - Mistletoe Malice (1951), Take It to Heart (1953), The Cost of Living (1956), The Common Touch (1958), and Limitations of Love (1962). Farrell's fiction was critically acclaimed for its savage wit and unsentimental humour, compared to Barbara Pym and Elizabeth Bowen, but failed to find a popular audience, and - by the time of her death in Hove in 1999 - she had fallen into obscurity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Faber & Faber, London
• Seitenzahl: 279
• Erscheinungstermin: November 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 127mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 250g
• ISBN-13: 9780571378265
• ISBN-10: 0571378269
• Artikelnr.: 67591176