Ivy Compton-Burnett

A House and Its Head

Novel examining a domineering matriarch and her family's lives

About the author

Ivy Compton-Burnett
Ivy Compton-Burnett

Compton-Burnett created a completely original fictional world entirely built from dialogue, in which Victorian and Edwardian upper-class families conduct their wars through conversation. Her novels are among the strangest and most achieved works of twentieth-century British fiction.

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