num_pages: 501
description: This shamelessly entertaining novel introduces readers to what may be the most powerful family in England - and is certainly the vilest.When mad Aunt Tabitha Winshaw engages Michael Owen to write a history of the Winshaw family, he uncovers a trail of back-stabbing and deceit that leads from World War II to the wholesale plunder of the 1980s. Michael implicates Winshaw bankers, politicians, and media princesses, but he also discovers unnerving truths about himself. For ensuing events bear an uncanny resemblance to a film that has haunted Michael since his childhood, a film whose gory denouement will be eerily repeated one rain-drenched night in the Winshaws’ crumbling mansion.A tour de force of menace and malicious comedy, The Winshaw Legacy lampoons our modern age of greed, and heralds the American debut of an extraordinary writer.
language: English
title: The Winshaw Legacy
titlecomplete: The Winshaw Legacy
genres: Classics, British Literature, Mystery, Humor, Novels, Literature, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Fiction, Politics
ratings_count: 11559
series: The Winshaw Legacy
awards: awardedAt: 757411200000
name: John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger
category: Roman
publisher: Vintage