House-Bound Category_Grey Books/Victoriana She arouses the emotion of

She arouses the emotion of recognition in any one who has ever risen from hard-earned repose morning after morning to face the terrible trifles of the day

experiences a freedom and a sense of achievement not available to most Western teenage girls

but Vere's comments on her work

'is the way the novel contrasts the children's community - in all its idealism

House-Bound Category_Grey Books/Victoriana She arouses the emotion ofPREFACE BY PENELOPE FITZGERALD 312pp ISBN 9781903155622 We first read about the very funny novel House Bound in 1985 in a piece in the T. L. S. The author's niece, novelist Penelope Fitzgerald, wrote that, If I could have back one of the many Winifred Peck titles I once possessed I would choose House Bound. The story never moves out of middle class Edinburgh; the satire on genteel living, though, is always kept in relation to the vast severance and