The House at the Edge of the World is a daring novel in that it dares you to care about a group of characters who are selfish, self-absorbed and angry, and who essentially stay that way throughout the story. Julia Rochester’s clever novel is the story of a family mystery and its slow unraveling. Our narrator Morwenna Venton tells us about the death of her father John, the strange map that her grandfather Matthew has spend a lifetime drawing, and her dysfunctional relationships with her […]