This is another novel by EM Delafield's, author of the beloved Provincial Lady series. One of her earlier novels, this richly amusing book focuses principally on the generation gap between those who grew up as Victorians, and the modern generation whose values have been shaped by the devastating experience of the first World War, and had been considered among the most thought-provoking novels of the 1920s.

Owen Quintillian has spent two years fighting on the Western Front and “ many months in hospital with shell-shock”. After a further stretch of active service in Mesopotamia, he returns to England, and the home of his old tutor, Canon Morchard, a monster of selfishness who manipulate his family by a form of moral blackmail – they are terrified of inspiring the pain he expresses when they cross him in the slightest particular..

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