'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 cr.
Penguin Classics The flint anchor/sylvia townsend warner
