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The Fountain Overflows by Rebecca West
(Published by Virago Modern Classics)
Meeting: 13th October 2007
After a lot of research including scouring the recommendations in the Sunday papers and reviewing the 'top' lists in the Guardian one book kept cropping up and this was it. As I was going on holidays I had awful problems trying to locate seven copies so ended up ordering them from seven different websites.
Synopsis
Rose Aubrey is one of a family of four children. Their father, Piers, is the disgraced son of an Irish landowning family, a violent, noble and quite unscrupulous leader of popular causes. His Scottish wife, Clare, is an artist, a tower of strength, fanatically devoted to a musical future for her daughters. This is the story of their life in south London, a life threatened by Piers's streak of tragic folly which keeps them on the verge of financial ruin and social disgrace . . .
We are meeting on 13th October 2007 to discuss this book and a review will be posted here shortly afterwards.
This month's book was picked by The Connoisseur 
Score awarded by Bibliofemme: 3.9 out of 5
What the other femmes had to say
"Its a Kaleidoscope of memories and engaging vignettes that warm the heart." 4/5
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