Howard Spring (1889-1965) won worldwide fame with his bestselling novel O Absalom! – afterward reissued as My Son, My Son to avoid a clash with William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! He settled in Cornwall, the setting for books that followed, such as Fame Is the Spur (1940), Hard Facts (1944), and The Houses in Between (1951).

A vigorous novel of frustrated lives. A story that is remorseless in its insistence on futility; pitiless as life itself

Howard Spring (1889-1965) won worldwide fame with his bestselling novel O Absalom! – afterward reissued as My Son, My Son to avoid a clash with William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! He settled in Cornwall, the setting for books that followed, such as Fame Is the Spur (1940), Hard Facts (1944), and The Houses in Between (1951).

A vigorous novel of frustrated lives. A story that is remorseless in its insistence on futility; pitiless as life itself

Howard Spring (1889-1965) won worldwide fame with his bestselling novel O Absalom! – afterward reissued as My Son, My Son to avoid a clash with William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! He settled in Cornwall, the setting for books that followed, such as Fame Is the Spur (1940), Hard Facts (1944), and The Houses in Between (1951).

A vigorous novel of frustrated lives. A story that is remorseless in its insistence on futility; pitiless as life itself