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Darkness
& Day
1951
Why had Edmund and Bridget Gaunt and their daughters been away from home? Because some decades earlier Edmund has fathered an illegitimate daughter.
Because more recently he had become convinced that Bridget, the orphan whom he had married, was that daughter — in short that he had married, all unwittingly, his own child, and that his two small daughters were also his two grandaughters. What happens when a dignified man comes to believe that his wife is also his daughter.
CRITICAL ACCLAIM
"There is no book of Miss Compton-Burnett's that has not its violent shock, as trim and tidy as a handgrenade and as destructive potentially."
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Pamela Hansford Johnson
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