The flint anchor

Warner, Sylvia Townsend

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John Barnard, leading merchant, is a pillar of 19th-century rectitude. Though stern with his indolent wife, he is undermined by his helpless love for his cold hearted daughter. This tragi-comedy shows Warner at the height of her powers.

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Publish Date: 25/03/2021

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‘A comic masterpiece’ Patrick Gale, Guardian

Pillar of society and stern upholder of Victorian values, god-fearing Norfolk merchant John Barnard presides over a large and largely unhappy family. This is their story – his brandy-swilling wife, their hapless offspring and their changing fortunes – over the decades. Sylvia Townsend Warner’s last novel, The Flint Anchor gloriously overturns our ideas of history, family and storytelling itself.

‘A novel created with solidity and subtlety of feeling, a fusion of warmth, wit and quietly biting shrewdness that are reminiscent of Jane Austen’ Atlantic Review

‘As a sustained work of historical imagination, it has few rivals … one of the most acute and intelligent writers of her age’ Claire Harman

Additional information

Weight 247 g
Dimensions 198 × 129 × 19 mm
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Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

288

Language

English

Edition

Reprint

Dewey

823.912 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K