Family Roundabout - Softcover

Richmal Crompton

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ISBN 10: 1903155134 ISBN 13: 9781903155134

Publisher: Persephone Books, 2001

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PublisherPersephone Books
Publication date2001
ISBN 10 1903155134
ISBN 13 9781903155134
BindingPaperback
Number of pages384
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FAMILY ROUNDABOUT

Richmal Crompton

Published by Persephone Books Ltd, London (2006)

ISBN 10: 1903155134 ISBN 13: 9781903155134

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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: New. Reprint. This new copy is bound in illustrated card covers as issued. The contents are bright, tight, white and square. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. Richmal Crompton is famous for being the author of the William books, which sold over 8 million copies in her lifetime, but she also wrote forty novels for adults, the best of which is, according to many, Family Roundabout, a 1948 book about the life of two families during the inter-war years. Family Roundabout centres on two matriarchs, around whom their two families spin. One is dreamy, laissez-faire, kindly and bookish; the other is controlling, managerial, efficient and energetic. 'Mrs Fowler's hands-off approach is on the face of it more appealing that Mrs Willoughby's repressive autocracy,' writes Juliet Aykroyd in her Preface, 'but in the end we are left pondering, What is a successful mother, or, come to think of it, a successful child?' The two women try hard, but inevitably the family roundabout goes round and round, the riders go up and down, and both must accept their children as they really are, rather than as they would like them to be; for all their efforts, whether misplaced or well-meaning, as it used to say above nursery doors - 'tout laisse, tout casse, tout passe'. This is quite a sardonic book, certainly it is not anodyne, and the reader is led to conclude that neither Mrs Fowler nor Mrs Willoughby have spun the roundabout quite as they should. NNN 7. Seller Inventory # 031992

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Family Roundabout (Paperback)

Richmal Crompton

Published by Persephone Books Ltd, London (2001)

ISBN 10: 1903155134 ISBN 13: 9781903155134

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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Richmal Crompton created William, the pugnacious anti-hero of thirty books selling over 8 million copies in her lifetime; but their author once hinted that a 'Frankenstein monster' had ambushed her forty novels for adults. Persephone Books publishes a 1948 novel about the life of two families during the inter-war years. Instead of seeing William at odds with adults, we are shown the matriarchs around whom their families spin; but whether they direct their children gently or forcefully, in the end they have to accept them as they are.We see that families can both entrap and sustain; that parents and children must respect each other; and that happiness necessitates jumping or being pushed off the family roundabout. This 1948 novel by the author of the 'Just William' stories presents the life of two families during the inter-war years. We are shown the contrasting matriarchs around whom their families spin; but whether they direct their children gently or forcefully, in the end they have to accept them as they are. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781903155134

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