Title: The Town House
Description: The Town House" is the first in a trilogy of novels by Norah Lofts about the inhabitants of a country house in Suffolk from the late fourteenth century to the middle of the twentieth. It begins with the story of Martin Reed, a serf existing under the control of a universally accepted and supported hierarchy. His rebellion, in defence of the woman he loves, casts both of them into the unknown. Freed from his acceptance of circumstance, Reed forges a new path, a path which culminates in the building of the House, and the foundations of a dynasty.
Subjects: Fiction in English, Fiction, Social life and customs, Feudalism, Historical fiction, Serfs, Emancipation, Families, History, Women, Fiction, general
Places: England
Time periods: 1066-1485