The Fountain Overflows The lives of the talented Aubrey children have long been clouded by their father s genius for instability but his new job in the London suburbs promises for a time at least reprieve from scandal an

The lives of the talented Aubrey children have long been clouded by their father s genius for instability, but his new job in the London suburbs promises, for a time at least, reprieve from scandal and the threat of ruin Mrs Aubrey, a former concert pianist, struggles to keep the family afloat, but then she is something of a high strung eccentric herself, as is all too cThe lives of the talented Aubrey children have long been clouded by their father s genius for instability, but his new job in the London suburbs promises, for a time at least, reprieve from scandal and the threat of ruin Mrs Aubrey, a former concert pianist, struggles to keep the family afloat, but then she is something of a high strung eccentric herself, as is all too clear to her daughter Rose, through whose loving but sometimes cruel eyes events are seen Still, living on the edge holds the promise of the unexpected, and the Aubreys, who encounter furious poltergeists, turn up hidden masterpieces, and come to the aid of a murderess, will find that they have adventure to spare.In The Fountain Overflows, a 1957 best seller, Rebecca West transmuted her own volatile childhood into enduring art This is an unvarnished but affectionate picture of an extraordinary family, in which a remarkable stylist and powerful intelligence surveys the elusive boundaries of childhood and adulthood, freedom and dependency, the ordinary and the occult.
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Cicely Isabel Fairfield, known by her pen name Rebecca West, or Dame Rebecca West, DBE was an English author, journalist, literary critic and travel writer A prolific, protean author who wrote in many genres, West was committed to feminist and liberal principles and was one of the foremost public intellectuals of the twentieth century She reviewed books for The Times, the New York Herald Tribune, the Sunday Telegraph, and the New Republic, and she was a correspondent for The Bookman Her major works include Black Lamb and Grey Falcon 1941 , on the history and culture of Yugoslavia A Train of Powder 1955 , her coverage of the Nuremberg trials, published originally in The New Yorker The Meaning of Treason, later The New Meaning of Treason, a study of World War II and Communist traitors The Return of the Soldier, a modernist World War I novel and the Aubrey trilogy of autobiographical novels, The Fountain Overflows, This Real Night, and Cousin Rosamund Time called her indisputably the world s number one woman writer in 1947 She was made CBE in 1949, and DBE in 1959, in recognition of her outstanding contributions to British letters.