Published in 2021 (first published 1933)
224 pages
Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett, DBE was an English novelist, published (in the original hardback editions) as I. Compton-Burnett. She was awarded the 1955 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for her novel Mother and Son.
What is this book about?
The electrically witty story of a headmistress struggling to retain an iron grip on the hidden plots in her girls’ school
Josephine Napier maintains order in her girls’ school through a benevolent exterior of self-sacrifice. But when a new male teacher and a figure from her husband’s past upset her environment’s delicate equilibrium, the darker shades of her authority begin to show and a ruthless struggle for power begins. Tense and subversively witty, More Women Than Men is a masterful unveiling of the covert allegiances and fierce conflicts produced by a claustrophobic world.
