Pan Macmillan Hatter's Castle

A soul-stirring novel of pride and greed, and its terrible retribution . . . When her father forced her to leave school, and cut off all her contact with the past and future, Mary Brodies whole life became the narrow compass of her familys cold, comfortless house in a small Scottish town. Her mean and ambitious father tyrannized over his timid, obliging wife, his cowed, overworked younger daughter and his spineless son. Four people were held in Brodies merciless grip until, like a breath of the outside world Brodie so much despised, came the young Irishman in whom Mary found a forbidden freedom, and who brought to her mother and sister much needed release . . . In the magnificent narrative tradition of The Citadel, The Stars Look Down and A. J. Cronins other classic novels, Hatters Castle is an impressive debut novel by a much-loved author and was adapted for the screen in 1942, starring Deborah Kerr (Black Narcissus). Autorid: A. J. Cronin