"Brodie’s Castle" is the first—and arguably the most well-known—novel by the remarkable prose writer Archibald Joseph Cronin. “My house is my castle”—this English proverb is well known. But few people manage to learn the secrets of an English home and to see the “tears invisible to the world.”
James Brodie’s house became not a fortress, but a real prison for his family members. From it, the eldest daughter Mary escapes, the son Matt leaves, but those who submit to Brodie’s tyranny and despotism—his wife Margaret and little Nessie—are doomed…