Daughters of Mrs Peacock

The Peacocks are five in family: father, mother, and three daughters. The year is 1870 or thereabouts. But though the opening chapter has the cool detachment of a ''period piece'', it is not long before we are caught up in a passionate concern with the girls'' love affairs and the undercurrent of conflict between the two generations. By his self-imposed discipline of Victorianism Mr Bullett has su...