Mad hatter / Amanda Hale.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hale, Amanda, author.

Contributor:

Virgo, Seán, 1940- editor.

Series:

Essential prose series ; 164.

Essential prose series ; 164

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Man-woman relationships--Fiction.

Man-woman relationships.

Suicide.

Fascists.

Great Britain.

Fascists--Great Britain--Fiction.

Suicide--Great Britain--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

449 pages ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo ; Lancaster (U.K.) : Guernica Editions, 2019.

Summary:

"When Christopher Brooke is arrested under Regulation 18B in June of 1940 a slow process of personal disintegration begins. His subsequent years of detention as a supporter of Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists leads from imprisonment in Liverpool's notorious Walton Gaol, to 'special interrogation' at Latchmere House - the MI5 headquarters where Col. 'Tin-Eye' Stephens dispenses his own peculiar brand of psychological torture - to Peveril Camp on the Isle of Man. Mary Byrne, an Irish farm girl from County Cavan, arrives in England and is hired as housekeeper/nanny in the Brooke household where she bonds with Cynthia Brooke and her three children. Mad Hatter charts the slow unravelling of a marriage and the tightening of its children in the devastation of post-war England as the story of the Brooke family moves inexorably to a tragic conclusion. The denouement shows Christopher's descent into religious mania and his increasing isolation until his suicide in 1950, leaving Cynthia Brooke with her unresolved grief."-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

"Séan Virgo, editor"--Title page verso.

Other Format:

Online version: Hale, Amanda. Mad hatter.

ISBN:

9781771833905

1771833904

OCLC:

1081304635