A Well Full of Leaves Category_Grey Books/Social Comedy 'A thought-provoking insight into anti-semitism

'A thought-provoking insight into anti-semitism between the wars

William - an Englishman (1919) is one of the greatest novels to emerge from World War One: not the war of the fighting soldier or the woman waiting at home

who wrote a new Preface for our edition of the book

becomes Lady Galowrie when she is 19 and

compelled to go on but with a sense of simmering dread'

A Well Full of Leaves Category_Grey Books/Social Comedy 'A thought-provoking insight into anti-semitismAFTERWORD BY ELEANOR FARJEON 312pp ISBN 9781910263334 A Well Full of Leaves is about a family of four children growing up somewhere in the north of England, with an utterly vile mother who is cruel to her children, self centred, and deplorable. It isnt everyone who has a mother like ours. She was a specialist whose specialities never touched the kind, the gentle, or the constructive. She was at her best when she was toppling the entire scene. All her