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Parents and Children
Parents and Children | Ivy Compton-Burnett
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Eleanor and Fulbert Sullivan live, with their nine children ranging from nursery to university age, in a huge country house belonging to Fulbert's parents, Sir Jesse and Lady Regan. Sir Jesse sends Fulbert, his only son, on a business mission to South America. News comes of Fulbert's death, and his executor, Ridley Cranmer, plans an impulsive marriage to Eleanor... but is Fulbert really dead? And what is the mystery surrounding the parentage of the three strange Marlowes living in genteel penury on the fringe of the great estate?Parents and Children is less savage in theme than some of Ivy Compton-Burnett's fiction and, with its richly funny scenes with the children and happily resolved ending, makes a perfect introduction to this distinguished author's highly individual world - a closed world of intense relationships within late Victorian upper-class families, a world in which the normally unspoken is stated and the unthinkable enacted, with dark revelations blandly emerging from formal speeches of great subtlety.
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Parents and Children | Ivy Compton-Burnett
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Fulbright & Eleanor Sullivan and their 9 children (ranging in age from young adult to toddler) live in a manor house with Fulbright's parents. They have friends & neighbors. The plot is incidental. This is about family dynamics, particularly how children are treated, what they are told (at different ages), & what they understand. In ICB's world, children are perceptive, adults are selfish, and the man of the house always gets away with something.

merelybookish Her books are very dialogue driven and there are subtleties & double meanings in what characters say. It makes for careful reading. There's depth to her psychological insight, not unlike Shakespeare's. ICB is a fascinating writer! #192025 @Librarybelle 2y
Librarybelle Sounds fascinating! 2y
batsy Nice! Your review has convinced me. Must read more ICB. 2y
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LeahBergen What @batsy said! 👍 2y
merelybookish @batsy @LeahBergen Thanks! I'd be up for an ICB buddy read anytime as I find her books are the kinds I want to talk about with others! 2y
merelybookish @Librarybelle It really is! Although I can see why some readers can't stand her style! 2y
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Parents and Children | Ivy Compton-Burnett
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Starting the tagged book, my second Ivy Compton-Burnett, supposedly less savage than most of her fiction.
She does fascinate me!

batsy Me too! Look forward to your thoughts. The only one I've read so far is the one for #nyrbbookclub 2y
AnneCecilie This book just came up in a book I‘m reading by Maggie Nelson with a very interesting analysis
[tagged book]The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning
2y
merelybookish @batsy It has the same structure. And same bite. 😉 2y
merelybookish @AnneCecilie Oh how funny! Would you recommend that book? 2y
AnneCecilie Absolutely, even if it‘s hard to read sometimes when she describes some of the visual art. 2y
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