Rebecca West

A talented, eccentric London family tries to find their place in the world in this semiautobiographical novel by a New York Times–bestselling author.
Papa Aubrey's wife and twin daughters, Mary and Rose, are piano prodigies, his young son Richard Quin is a lively boy, and his eldest daughter Cordelia is a beautiful and driven young woman with musical aspirations. But the talented and eccentric Aubrey family rarely enjoys...

Rebecca West's penetrating perspective on the huge social changes that were triggered by the Great War concerns an aristocrat who returns from the conflict traumatised by the shelling and unable to return to a normal lifestyle.

'Black Lamb and Grey Falcon' was hailed as a masterpiece when it first appeared in 1942 and became 'the central book' of Rebecca West's life. The book was completed as Yugoslavia was plunged into political turmoil, followed by invasion and warfare.