The Facts of Life: A Novel

Three generations of a British family struggle through war, intolerance, infidelity, and illness in this "extraordinary blockbuster" (Time Out London).

In the Roundel, an odd, secluded, eight-sided house in the English countryside, Edward Pepper and Sally Banks build a life. Hoping they've left hardship behind—they met when Sally, a doctor, treated Edward for tuberculosis after he escaped from Nazi Germany to England—they raise a family together. The German-Jewish composer has his devoted w...