num_pages: 173
description: First published in 1963, A God and his Gifts was the last of Ivy Compton-Burnett's novels to be published in her lifetime and is considered by many to be one of her best. Set in the claustrophobic world of Edwardian upper-class family life, it is the story of the self-willed and arrogant Hereward Egerton. In his marriage to Ada Merton he maintains a veneer of respectability, but in other relationships he steps beyond the bounds of conventional morality with both comic and tragic results…
language: English
title: A God and His Gifts
titlecomplete: A God and His Gifts
genres: Fiction, Literary Fiction, British Literature, Humor
ratings_count: 68
publisher: Penguin Books