Family Roundabout - Softcover

Richmal Crompton created William, the pugnacious anti-hero of thirty books selli ng over 8 million copies in her lifetime. We publish the best of her forty novel s for adults, a 1948 book about the life of two families during the inter-war ye ars. Instead of seeing William at odds with adults, we are shown the matriarchs around whom their families spin; but whether they direct their children gently o r forcefully, in the end they have to accept them as they are. We see that families can both entrap and sustain; that parents and children must respect eac h other; and that happiness necessitates jumping or being pushed off the family roundabout.