The Flint Anchor
  • Published: 1 June 2021
  • ISBN: 9780241476086
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $26.00

The Flint Anchor

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A brilliant exploration of power and dysfunction in Victorian England

Pillar of society and stern upholder of Victorian values, god-fearing Norfolk merchant John Barnard presides over a large and largely unhappy family. This is their story - his brandy-swilling wife, their hapless offspring and their changing fortunes - over the decades. Sylvia Townsend Warner's last novel, The Flint Anchor gloriously overturns our ideas of history, family and storytelling itself.
  • Published: 1 June 2021
  • ISBN: 9780241476086
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $26.00
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About the author

Sylvia Townsend Warner

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Praise for The Flint Anchor

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

One of our most idiosyncratic, courageous and versatile writers

Hermione Lee