{"product_id":"a-house-and-its-head","title":"A House and Its Head","description":"\u003cp\u003e'The merriest tale of human depravity you will ever read' - Hilary Mantel\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Shrewd, sly, mordantly funny and magnificently odd, few literary voices are as distinctive, or as entertaining, as Ivy Compton-Burnett's' Sarah Waters\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIvy Compton-Burnett's most unsparing dissection of the patriarchal family, back in print with a new introduction by Hilary Mantel\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is Christmas Day, 1885, and the Edgeworths are at each other's throats again. Duncan holds his wife and children captive to his authoritarian whims; every day brings fresh struggles for power. Before breakfast is over, there will be presents in the fire.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen illness strikes the family, volatile tensions are unleashed that result in scandal, adultery and murder, while a crowd of gossiping neighbours watches gleefully on.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA brutally funny demolition of patriarchal authority, A House and Its Head confirms Ivy Compton-Burnett's status as one of the unique stylists of twentieth-century English fiction, and its greatest chronicler of the violent dysfunction of families.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PRHD Penguin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45146981302495,"sku":"9781911590392","price":23.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0685\/2185\/3151\/files\/9781911590392.jpg?v=1744083615","url":"https:\/\/lamplightbooks.pro\/products\/a-house-and-its-head","provider":"Lamplight Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}