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Eleanor and Fulbert Sullivan live with their children in a huge country house owned by Fulbert's parents, Sir Jesse and Lady Regan. Sir Jesse sends Fulbert, his only son, on a business trip to South America. Soon the news of Fulbert's death arrives, and his executor, Ridley Cranmer, plans a hasty marriage to Eleanor. But has Fulbert really died? And what is the mystery surrounding the Marlows, who in relative poverty live next to the large family estate? Filled with funny scenes and a round ending, Parents and Children is the perfect introduction to the author's narrative universe: a closed world of intense family relationships, a portrait of the late Victorian upper class, dialogues that uncover a normalcy unspoken and sometimes unthinkable, dark revelations that emerge from dialogues of great subtlety.