Sheila Kaye-Smith

The End of the House of Alard

Novel tracing the rise and fall of a wealthy Sussex family

About the author

Sheila Kaye-Smith
Sheila Kaye-Smith

Kaye-Smith was a major regional novelist of the Sussex Weald, whose fiction of farming communities and religious conflict earned comparisons with Hardy. Her conversion to Catholicism gave her later work a distinctive spiritual dimension.

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