Family Money

Family Money

by Nina Bawden Deceased (Author)

Synopsis

Fanny Pye's London house, bought for a song many years earlier, is now worth a small fortune. When she intervenes in a street brawl and is hospitalised, her children tactfully suggest that she move to the suburbs, coincidently releasing some useful 'family money'. Fanny has different views about inheritance and property and is anyway more concerned that she cannot properly remember the events of that night which ended in the death of a stranger. Then, as her amnesia clears, she is overwhelmed by a terrible sense of danger.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
Edition: Reprint
Publisher: Virago
Published: 02 Nov 2006

ISBN 10: 1844083187
ISBN 13: 9781844083183
Book Overview: A wonderfully compelling, ironic novel about families, old age and money, with all the tempo of a thriller.

Media Reviews
Nina Bawden's readers should be numbered like the sands of the sea . . . This is a wonderfully satisfying novel, wise, tolerant, witty * GUARDIAN *
Marvellous . . . Funny, subtle, sympathetic * OBSERVER *
One of the wisest and most versatile of our novelists * CHRISTOPHER WORDSWORTH, GUARDIAN *
Author Bio
Nina Bawden (1925-2012) was one of Britain's best-loved writers for both adults and children. Several of her children's books - Carrie's War, a Phoenix Award winner;The Peppermint Pig, which won the Guardian Fiction Award; and Keeping Henry - have become contemporary classics. She wrote over forty novels, slightly more than half of which are for adults, and she was shortlisted for the 1987 Man Booker Prize for Circles of Deceit. She received the prestigious S T Dupont Golden Pen Award for a lifetime's contribution to literature in 2004, and in 2010 The Birds on the Trees was shortlisted for the Lost Booker of 1970.