\'A comic masterpiece\' Patrick Gale, GuardianPillar of society and stern upholder of Victorian values, god-fearing Norfolk merchant John Barnard presides over a large and largely unhappy family. one of the most acute and intelligent writers of her age\' Claire Harman.
Sylvia Townsend Warner\'s last novel, The Flint Anchor gloriously overturns our ideas of history, family and storytelling itself.\'A novel created with solidity and subtlety of feeling, a fusion of warmth, wit and quietly biting shrewdness that are reminiscent of Jane Austen\' Atlantic Review\'As a sustained work of historical imagination, it has few rivals ...
This is their story - his brandy-swilling wife, their hapless offspring and their changing fortunes - over the decades. \'A comic masterpiece\' Patrick Gale, GuardianPillar of society and stern upholder of Victorian values, god-fearing Norfolk merchant John Barnard presides over a large and largely unhappy family
