Frances Vernon - Privileged Children

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Winner of the Author’s Club Award for Best First Novel.

When Diana Molloy dies in 1912 she leaves her 14 year old daughter, Alice, a curious inheritance - her collection of books and a lasting attachment to her mother’s bohemian friends. Much to the self-posessed young Alice’s dismay, she is packed off to a rural vicar uncle - but it is not long before she contrives her escape to the Bloomsbury life she loved.

Flourishing in London once more, she is free to make her own life and to develop her talent as a painter. But as the troubles of the Great War approach, the free thinkers and artists who have become her ‘family’ find their own conflict as they struggle to maintain their principles of pacifism and communal economy. And then Alice is faced with the unexpected rebellion of her own daughter, Finola, who seeks a more conventional life.