Brother of the More Famous Jack

A cult classic of British literature, this coming-of-age novel follows a young woman who is transformed by her connection with an idiosyncratic, academic family in London.

The Goldman home, anarchic, proudly carnal, and teeming with little children, could not be less like the stultifyingly respectable one Katherine Browne has just left. She enters university in search of an education—and she will find one, not in the classroom but among the Goldmans: Jacob, the Falstaffian philosophy profess...