Hatter's Castle

A. J. Cronin’s famous story is a soul-stirring novel of pride and greed, and its terrible retribution.

When her father forced her to leave school, and cut off all her contact with the past and future, Mary Brodie’s whole life became the narrow compass of her family’s cold, comfortless house in a small Scottish town.

Her mean and ambitious father tyrannised over his timid, obliging wife, his cowed,...