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Parents &
Children
1941
Ranging from nursery to university age, the nine Sullivan children live with their parents, Eleanor and Fulbert, in a huge country house belonging to Fulbert's parents, Sir Jesse and Lady Regan.
Sir Jesse then sends Fulbert. his only son, on a business mission to South America. The news follows of Fulbert's death, and his executor, Ridly Cranmer, plans impulsive marriage to Eleanor... but is Fulbert really dead?
CRITICAL ACCLAIM
"To Miss Compton-Burnett the family conflict is intimate, unrelenting, very often indecisive and fought out mainly in conversation.... The passions which bring distress to her country houses have recently devastated continents."
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Edwin Muir, The Observer
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