A Tale of Spite and Rancour

Penguin Books, 1997. Good second-hand condition.

Spite and Rancour are both characters in the novels that plain Jane Martin writes, while her own history is a parade of larger-than-life personalities who drives her to despair - a lying and deceitful mother, malicious sisters, and the man in the felt hat who is promising the earth while tearing a family's small world apart.