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The Flint Anchor
  • Published: 1 June 2021
  • ISBN: 9780241476086
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $22.99

The Flint Anchor

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1 June 2021
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1 Mar 2021
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A brilliant exploration of power and dysfunction in Victorian England

Pillar of society and stern upholder of Victorian values, god-fearing Norfolk merchant John Barnard presides over a large and largely unhappy family. This is their story - his brandy-swilling wife, their hapless offspring and their changing fortunes - over the decades. Sylvia Townsend Warner's last novel, The Flint Anchor gloriously overturns our ideas of history, family and storytelling itself.
  • Published: 1 June 2021
  • ISBN: 9780241476086
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $22.99
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About the author

Sylvia Townsend Warner

Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978) grew up in rural Devonshire before moving to London and writing her debut novel, Lolly Willowes (1926). With her partner Valentine Ackland, she was active in the Communist Party and served in the Red Cross during the Spanish Civil War. Her novels include Mr Fortune's Maggot, The True Heart, Summer Will Show, After the Death of Don Juan, The Corner That Held Them and The Flint Anchor.
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Also by Sylvia Townsend Warner

After the Death of Don Juan
Mr Fortune's Maggot
The True Heart
The Corner That Held Them
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Praise for The Flint Anchor

A novel created with solidity and subtlety of feeling, a fusion of warmth, wit and quietly biting shrewdness that are reminiscent of Jane Austen

Atlantic Review

One of our most idiosyncratic, courageous and versatile writers

Hermione Lee