The minotaur

310 pages

English language

Published July 6, 2005 by Penguin Canada.

ISBN:
978-0-14-305207-4
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OCLC Number:
57474594

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A young woman takes a job with a country family in order to be closer to her boyfriend and thus in on hand when a stranger appears in the village and sets the family on the path to self-destruction.

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Read for 4MA discussion. A fascinating portrait of a very dysfunctional family as viewed from the perspective of a down-to-earth Swedish nurse brought in to care for the 'mad' brother who, it turns out, is autistic. Very scathing portrait of small-minded middle class values in the south of England in the mid 20th-century.

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Subjects

  • Nurses
  • Schizophrenics
  • Administration of estates
  • Inheritance and succession
  • Fiction

Places

  • England
  • Essex
  • Essex (England)