House-Bound Category_Grey Books/Victoriana 'is the way the novel

'is the way the novel contrasts the children's community - in all its idealism

The reason for the anger is as follows: in the 1960s local council officials in Bath took it upon themselves to draw up plans to demolish large swathes of artisan housing while retaining the set pieces such as the Royal Crescent

but it makes all the difference

their abiding interest lies in the light-filled mind that pervades them and in the astonishing internal journey they chart

House-Bound Category_Grey Books/Victoriana 'is the way the novelPREFACE BY PENELOPE FITZGERALD 312pp ISBN 9781903155622 We first read about the very funny novel House Bound in 1985 in a piece in the T. L. S. The author's niece, novelist Penelope Fitzgerald, wrote that, If I could have back one of the many Winifred Peck titles I once possessed I would choose House Bound. The story never moves out of middle class Edinburgh; the satire on genteel living, though, is always kept in relation to the vast severance and