Told by an Idiot

Name: Told by an Idiot
Author: Rose Macaulay

by Rose Macaulay

Comic novel spanning decades in the life of an unconventional English family and its misadventures

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Rose Macaulay

Macaulay was a distinguished novelist and travel writer whose work ranged from light satire to serious explorations of religious doubt and social change. Told by an Idiot and The Towers of Trebizond are her most enduring novels.

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