Title: A god and his gifts
Subtitle: a novel
First published: 1963
Description: 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 through his intimate relationships with her sister, Emmeline, and his son's future wife, Hetty, he steps beyond the bounds of conventional morality with both comic and tragic results.
Subjects: Fiction in English, Fiction, History, God, love, Fiction, general
LC classification: PZ3.C7375 Go2, PR6005.O3895 Go2