The Aunts

by Robert Liddell

Peter Owen Publishers, 1987, [First Edition], ISBN 0720606659, hardcover, dustjacket

Good Condition, a little edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, ex-lib with stamp to front endpaper, stamp and sticker to back endpaper, damaged top corner to text block, age toned pages, dustjacket in good condition with a little crumpling and minor discolouration (see photographs)

“The time is the autumn of 1938, shortly before the Munich agreement, the place, a quiet inland spa in rural England.  Lodging there together are Philip Milsom, partner in an old family firm of solicitors, and James Freeling, Philips’s great friend at Oxford and now an assistant priest at the Church of St Simon Zelotes.  Not far away live Philip’s aunts, Jane and Eliza, sparring sisters, along with Hane’s arthritic impotent husband George and his old wet Highland terrier, Danny, a ‘dear little dog’.”