Family Money
By (Author) Nina Bawden
Little, Brown Book Group
Virago Press Ltd
11th January 2007
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
823.914
288
Width 141mm, Height 198mm, Spine 19mm
232g
Fanny Pye's London house, bought for a song many years earlier, is now worth a small fortune. When she intervenes in a street brawl and is hospitalised, her children tactfully suggest that she move to the suburbs, coincidently releasing some useful 'family money'. Fanny has different views about inheritance and property and is anyway more concerned that she cannot properly remember the events of that night which ended in the death of a stranger. Then, as her amnesia clears, she is overwhelmed by a terrible sense of danger.
'Nina Bawden's readers should be numbered like the sands of the sea ... This is a wonderfully satisfying novel, wise, tolerant, witty' GUARDIAN 'Marvellous ... Funny, subtle, sympathetic' OBSERVER
Nina Bawden, CBE, is one of Britain's most distinguished and best-loved novelists. She has published over forty novels and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Circles of Deceit. In 2004 she received the PEN Award for a Lifetime's Service to Literatur