When his parents and uncle - a fatal triangle - self-destruct in 1982, Damien Frobisher, a well-meaning upper class socialist, inherits the huge, run-down Sparrow Hall. Damien would be more than happy to sell his embarassing inheritance to developers, but his domineering and sexually voracious wife Julie sees this as the perfect opportunity to found a commune, based on the socialist principles close to both their hearts. However the ill-assorted group of losers and oddballs they manage to assemble seems doomed from the outset. As anarchy becomes the new policy and then New Ageism begins to creep in, Julie's affairs and barely concealed contempt for her husband force Damien to retreat even further into his shell, until the Sparrow Hall community implodes once again in a fatal fire. But was it an accident, murder, or suicide?
- ISBN10 0340733888
- ISBN13 9780340733882
- Publish Date 3 November 2003 (first published 28 April 2003)
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 31 March 2006
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Hodder & Stoughton
- Imprint Sceptre
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 288
- Language English