Descripción

When Dinah Brooke’s second novel, Lord Jim at Home, was first published in 1973, it was described as «squalid and startling,» «nastily horrific,» and a «monstrous parody» of upper-middle class English life. It is the story of Giles Trenchard, who grows up isolated in an atmosphere of privilege and hidden violence; who goes to war, and returns; and then, one day–like the hero of Joseph Conrad’s classic Lord Jim–commits an act that calls his past, his character, his whole world into question