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Family Money

  • Author
    • Nina Bawden
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'Marvellous . . . Funny, subtle, sympathetic' OBSERVER

'One of the wisest and most versatile of our novelists' CHRISTOPHER WORDSWORTH, GUARDIAN

'Bawden's contemporary truths, laced with a dark humor, fit-and pinch' KIRKUS REVIEWS

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.

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  • Published: Nov 02 2006
  • Pages: 288
  • 198 x 141mm
  • ISBN: 9781844083183
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Press Reviews

  • Guardian
    Nina Bawden's readers should be numbered like the sands of the sea . . . This is a wonderfully satisfying novel, wise, tolerant, witty
  • Observer
    Marvellous . . . Funny, subtle, sympathetic
  • Christopher Wordsworth

    Guardian
    One of the wisest and most versatile of our novelists
  • Kirkus Reviews
    As in Walking Naked (1981) and Circles of Deceit, Bawden's contemporary truths, laced with a dark humor, fit-and pinch
  • Publishers Weekly
    Sharply observed and drawn with precision, Fanny's troubles and their eventual resolution make a compelling read
  • Los Angeles Times
    This funny, vicious, little novel is written not just for women, but for old women of all ages
  • GUARDIAN
    Nina Bawden's readers should be numbered like the sands of the sea . . . This is a wonderfully satisfying novel, wise, tolerant, witty
  • OBSERVER
    Marvellous . . . Funny, subtle, sympathetic
  • CHRISTOPHER WORDSWORTH, GUARDIAN
    One of the wisest and most versatile of our novelists