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Eleanor and Fulbert Sullivan live, with the nine children ranging from nursery to school age, in a huge country house belonging to Fulbert's parents, Sir Jesse and Girl Regan. Sir Jesse delivers Fulbert, his only boy, over a business mission to SOUTH USA. Reports comes of Fulbert's fatality, and his executor, Ridley Cranmer, plans an impulsive marriage to Eleanor. But is Fulbert really lifeless? And what is the mystery adjoining the parentage of the three strange Marlowes moving into genteel penury on the fringe of the fantastic property? Parents and Children is less savage in theme than a few of Ivy Compton-Burnett's fiction and, with its richly funny displays with the kids and happily fixed concluding, makes a perfect introduction to this distinguished author's highly individual world - a closed down world of powerful relationships within late Victorian upper-class households, a world in which the normally unspoken is mentioned and the unthinkable enacted, with dark revelations blandly growing from formal speeches of great subtlety. Compton-Burnett was prompted by her liberal and unorthodox father, homeopath Dr Burnett, to get ready to learn classics at London school (neither Oxford nor Cambridge provided degrees to women at this time). She acquired dearly treasured her father, who died without warning from a heart attack in 1901 when she was sixteen. Her closest sibling died 3 years later, and Ivy Compton-Burnett continued to reduce three more of her more youthful siblings and her mother by enough time she was 35, something she could hardly bear to speak about, but constantly explored in her books. Compton-Burnett posted twenty books, the first while she is at her 20s, in 1911. However, the first of her works to make use of her mature and startlingly original style was posted when she was 40, in 1925. Compton-Burnett's fiction handles local situations in large households which, to all or any intents and purposes, invariably seem to be Edwardian. She was called a Dame Commander of the British Empire in 1967.
