Pretty Doll Houses

Pretty Doll Houses is a study of childhood and adolescence. Set in the 1920s and 1930s, the narrative, although fictional, is based on Fieding''s early years growing up in Tulllagee, in Sussex; of the family''s life in the Yarm-on-the-Trees where his father was vicar; and of the adolescent years in Anglesey, where John Blaydon''s mother contrives to rule her family, including her ailing husband, a...