by Kitty Neale · Orion Publishing · tapa dura · ISBN 9780752857404
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«The Empty Hearth» is the family novel by Kitty Neale, published by Orion Publishing in hardcover (352 pages, in English).
Set in Battersea in the 1950s and 1960s, the novel follows the Pratchetts, a family marked by the jealous obsession of Alfie, an authoritarian father. His teenage children, John and Millie, try to protect their mother, Eileen, until a serious crisis destabilizes the home and drags them into debt, alcoholism and madness.
Originally published in 2006, the work is catalogued as a family saga and romantic fiction.
For readers of family sagas and social dramas with a mid-20th-century British setting.
