A. J. Cronin's famous story is a soul-stirring novel of pride and greed, and its terrible retribution.
When her father forced her to leave school, and cut off all her contact with the past and future, Mary Brodie's whole life became the narrow compass of her family's cold, comfortless house in a small Scottish town.
Her mean and ambitious father tyrannised over his timid, obliging wife, his cowed, overworked younger daughter and his spineless son. Four people were held in Brodie's merciless grip until, like a breath of the outside world Brodie so much despised, came the young Irishman in whom Mary found a forbidden freedom, and who brought to her mother and sister much needed release...
In the magnificent narrative tradition of The Citadel, The Stars Look Down and Cronin's other classic novels, Hatter's Castle is a great book by a much-loved author.
- ISBN10 0450004961
- ISBN13 9780450004964
- Publish Date 1 January 1983 (first published December 1932)
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 8 May 2000
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Hodder & Stoughton General Division
- Imprint New English Library Ltd
- Format Paperback
- Pages 544
- Language English