A Well Full of Leaves Category_Grey Books/Social Comedy This 1944 novel is about

This 1944 novel is about memory loss and is the only book we know of

The family in the novel would have grown dahlias

William - an Englishman (1919) is one of the greatest novels to emerge from World War One: not the war of the fighting soldier or the woman waiting at home

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 This 1944 novel is aboutAFTERWORD 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