Another severe and wonderfully acerbic book by Ivy Compton-Burnett. We begin looking at a rich family in which the father of several daughters and a son, a widower, is pursuing a wife. This potential marriage is fragile at best as each child has their turn dissecting and interrogating both potential step-mother, their father, and additionally as the father’s own mother has her say too. This is how the book flows. A situation occurs and various actors within the situation interrogate it with acidic precision, unemotional […]