Product Overview
The story is deceptively simple: the entanglement of two families in a northern town called Aldworth. One, the Lockwoods, wealthy and powerful, in a position to patronise and help the second family, the poor Hunters, who have been left fatherless with a weak, ineffectual mother. Though the thudding heart of the story draws the reader inexorably along, hoping for the meek to conquer the strong, it is a surprising book in many ways, not least for its subversive portrayal of family – the children are often the adults, the parents the untrustworthy, unwise ones, and Whipple makes it clear that what we call today the nuclear family is not the answer to happiness. But what may be most satisfying about the book is how the climax is reached as a result of character. This is twentieth-century British fiction at its very best.
This hardcover edition of Because of the Lockwoods is acceptable condition. The dust jacket is missing. Owner inscription on front endpaper, dated 1949. Hard cover has a folded in corner on the back. The book is otherwise unmarked and clean. The endpapers are lovely, both front and back are the pretty illustration shown in the photo. The cloth cover is a bright lime green with royal blue lettering that would look great on your shelf, either as part of a collection of People's Book Club editions, or as a decoration or room dressing.
