Booker prize-winner Penelope Fitzgerald was inspired to write a group biography about four influential men who made an important contribution to British history, who just happened to be her father and his three brothers. A Fleet Street journalist, the editor of 'Punch', a priest, and a classical scholar and code breaker in both world wars, form a family of believers and non-believers, who straddled the divide between late Victorian and Edwardian England. They are also funny and entertaining in Fitzgerald's hands.
The introduction is by Richard Holmes.
