Mistletoe Malice (ePub)

Name: Mistletoe Malice
Brand: Faber & Faber
SKU: 147426972
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'Christmas literary comfort and joy' (Meg Mason, author of Sorrow and Bliss) (Sprache: Englisch)

Autor: Kathleen Farrell

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A dysfunctional family reunites for the Christmas holiday from hell in this rediscovered festive classic with fangs: 'literary comfort and joy' (Meg Mason, author of Sorrow and Bliss) for fans of Barbara Pym, Elizabeth Taylor and Stella Gibbons.

She had her hand on the strings; the puppets could frolic awhile.

The fire is on, sherry poured, presents wrapped, and claws are being sharpened. In a seaside cottage perched on a cliff, one family reunites for Christmas. While snow falls, a tyrannical widowed matriarch presides over her unruly brood. Her niece tends to her whims, but fantasises about eloping; and as more guests arrive, each bringing their secret truths and dreams, the Christmas tree explodes, a brawl erupts, an escape occurs - and their 'midwinter madness' climaxes ...

Autoren-Porträt von Kathleen Farrell

Kathleen Farrell was born in London in 1912 and educated at a convent school. Her first book,
Johnny's Not Home from the Fair (1942), was written while working for the wartime secretary-general of the Labour party, after which she founded a prestigious literary agency, eventually sold to a rival firm. Farrell lived in Hampstead for twenty years with her partner
Kay Dick, reviewer, editor and author of They (1977), in a literary circle including Ivy Compton-Burnett, Stevie Smith and Olivia Manning. She wrote five more novels -
Mistletoe Malice (1951),
Take It to Heart (1953),
The Cost of Living (1956),
The Common Touch (1958), and
Limitations of Love (1962) - as well as contributing much-admired stories to Macmillan's
Winter's Tales series. Farrell's fiction was critically acclaimed for its savage wit and unsentimental humour, compared to Barbara Pym and Elizabeth Bowen, but failed to find a popular audience, and - by the time of her death in Brighton in 1999 - she had fallen into obscurity.