{"product_id":"a-house-and-its-head","title":"A House and Its Head","description":"\u003cp\u003eIvy Compton-Burnett's most unsparing dissection of the patriarchal family, back in print with a new introduction by Hilary Mantel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is Christmas Day, 1885, and the Edgeworths are at each other's throats again. Duncan holds his wife and children captive to his authoritarian whims; every day brings fresh struggles for power. Before breakfast is over, there will be presents in the fire.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen illness strikes the family, volatile tensions are unleashed that result in scandal, adultery and murder, while a crowd of gossiping neighbours watches gleefully on.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA brutally funny demolition of patriarchal authority, \u003cem\u003eA House and Its Head \u003c\/em\u003econfirms Ivy Compton-Burnett's status as one of the unique stylists of twentieth-century English fiction, and its greatest chronicler of the violent dysfunction of families.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ivy Compton-Burnett","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44953287655471,"sku":"9781911590392","price":525.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0743\/6428\/9071\/files\/9781911590392.jpg?v=1770797373","url":"https:\/\/lunabooks.in\/products\/a-house-and-its-head","provider":"Luna Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}