Editions

The Flint Anchor

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • ISBN: 9780241476086

  • Length: 336  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 19mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 247g

  • RRP: £9.99

The Flint Anchor

'A comic masterpiece' Patrick Gale, Guardian

Pillar of society and stern upholder of Victorian values, god-fearing Norfolk merchant John Barnard presides over a large and largely unhappy family. This is their story - his brandy-swilling wife, their hapless offspring and their changing fortunes - over the decades. Sylvia Townsend Warner's last novel, The Flint Anchor gloriously overturns our ideas of history, family and storytelling itself.

'A novel created with solidity and subtlety of feeling, a fusion of warmth, wit and quietly biting shrewdness that are reminiscent of Jane Austen' Atlantic Review

'As a sustained work of historical imagination, it has few rivals ... one of the most acute and intelligent writers of her age' Claire Harman

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • ISBN: 9780241476086

  • Length: 336  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 19mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 247g

  • RRP: £9.99

Reviews

  • A novel created with solidity and subtlety of feeling, a fusion of warmth, wit and quietly biting shrewdness that are reminiscent of Jane Austen

    Atlantic Review

  • One of our most idiosyncratic, courageous and versatile writers

    Hermione Lee

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About the Author

Sylvia Townsend Warner

Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978) grew up in rural Devonshire before moving to London and writing her debut novel, Lolly Willowes (1926). With her partner Valentine Ackland, she was active in the Communist Party and served in the Red Cross during the Spanish Civil War. Her novels include Mr Fortune's Maggot, The True Heart, Summer Will Show, After the Death of Don Juan, The Corner That Held Them and The Flint Anchor.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

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