“Poor papa has lost his faith again,” Mrs. Garden announces to her six children in 1879, and her husband’s restless conversions set the tone for a family chronicle that runs through the Victorian, fin-de-siècle, Edwardian and Georgian years. Each child takes a different road through changing fashions in religion, politics, art and love, and through the smash of the war.
Macaulay’s witty, sceptical panorama of half a century of English manners, as funny as it is wise. Download the free EPUB.