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The House of Women
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Seventy-year-old Emma Funnell rules Bramble House and the commercial interests left by her husband with no intention of surrendering authority. Under the same roof live her widowed daughter Victoria, overburdened granddaughter Lizzie and sixteen-year-old great-granddaughter Peggy, each constrained by the habits and grievances of the generations above her.
In 1968, Peggy’s pregnancy by a boy from a different background detonates a conflict that the household cannot contain through silence or discipline. Over the following fifteen years, marriage, violence and changing attitudes test whether a family composed almost entirely of women can offer mutual protection without reproducing Emma’s control.
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