A Well Full of Leaves Category_Grey Books/Social Comedy The Preface concludes: ‘Vain Shadow

The Preface concludes: ‘Vain Shadow is quietly successful

This 1944 novel is about memory loss and is the only book we know of

And there are stories by Persephone favourites such as Dorothy Whipple

becomes Lady Galowrie when she is 19 and

A Well Full of Leaves Category_Grey Books/Social Comedy The Preface concludes: ‘Vain ShadowAFTERWORD BY ELEANOR FARJEON 312pp ISBN 9781910263334 A Well Full of Leaves is about a family of four children growing up somewhere in the north of England, with an utterly vile mother who is cruel to her children, self centred, and deplorable. It isnt everyone who has a mother like ours. She was a specialist whose specialities never touched the kind, the gentle, or the constructive. She was at her best when she was toppling the entire scene. All her