Louise Candlish's latest novel is
Our House. One of
five memorable houses in fiction she tagged at the Waterstones blog:
Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
The novel that gave us castles in the air and prison walls both real and metaphorical also features the complete collapse of a London house – that of the righteous Mrs Clennam. She suffers bodily and mental shut-down almost immediately afterwards. Now we’re in the era of over-renovated opened-out iceberg homes – sometimes developed sans planning permission – and when we hear of one going boom and falling in on itself, we like to hope it’s taken the owners’ narcissism down with it.
Read about
another entry on the list.
Little Dorrit is among
Miriam Margolyes's six best books.
--Marshal Zeringue
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