A Well Full of Leaves Category_Grey Books/Social Comedy who wrote a new Preface

who wrote a new Preface for our edition of the book

and a useful piece of social history

And there are stories by Persephone favourites such as Dorothy Whipple

a great Persephone favourite: it too is about a woman bringing up a family who is left at the end

The endpaper we have used is a Wiener Werkstätte fabric called 'Paul' designed in 1927 in Vienna by Clara Posnanski

A Well Full of Leaves Category_Grey Books/Social Comedy who wrote a new PrefaceAFTERWORD BY ELEANOR FARJEON 312pp ISBN 9781910263334 A Well Full of Leaves is about a family of four children growing up somewhere in the north of England, with an utterly vile mother who is cruel to her children, self centred, and deplorable. It isnt everyone who has a mother like ours. She was a specialist whose specialities never touched the kind, the gentle, or the constructive. She was at her best when she was toppling the entire scene. All her