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A house and its head by Ivy Compton-Burnett · Booklabria

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A house and its head

Family lifeMurder

A house and its head

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First published: 1935
Language: English
Editions: 20

Synopsis

"A House and Its Head is Ivy Compton-Burnett's subversive look at the politics of family life, and perhaps the most unsparing of her novels. No sooner has Duncan Edgeworth's wife died than he takes a new, much younger bride whose willful ways provoke a series of transgressions that begins with adultery and ends, much to everyone's relief, in murder."--Publisher's description.

Subjects: Family life
Murder
Adultery
Widowers
Murder in fiction
Remarried people

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