Lord Jim at Home

Dinah Brooke

Dec 2023 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Ottessa Moshfegh

About this audiobook

"A brilliant, chilling picture of the English middle class at home." -Illustrated London News When Dinah Brooke's second novel, Lord Jim at Home, was first published in 1973, it was described as "squalid and startling," "nastily horrific," and a "monstrous parody" of upper-middle class English life. It is the story of Giles Trenchard, who grows up isolated in an atmosphere of privilege and hidden violence; who goes to war, and returns; and then, one day-like the hero of Joseph Conrad's classic Lord Jim-commits an act that calls his past, his character, his whole world into question. Out of print for nearly half a century (and never published in the United States), Lord Jim at Home reveals a daring writer long overdue for reappraisal, whose work has retained all its originality and power. As Ottessa Moshfegh writes in her foreword to this new edition, Brooke evokes childhood vulnerability and adult cruelty "in a way that nice people are too polite to admit they understand."

About the author

Dinah Brooke read English at Oxford, attended film school in London, briefly worked for a documentary film company, and spent a year in Greenwich Village. In the early 1970s, published four critically acclaimed novels. She returned to London in 1981, where she lives today.