“Browdy’s Castle” is the first—and perhaps the best known—novel by the remarkable prose writer Archibald Joseph Cronin. “My home is my castle” is a well-known English proverb. And few are able to learn the secrets of an English house, to see the “invisible tears of the world.”
James Browdy’s home stopped being a fortress and turned into a real prison for his family. From it, the eldest daughter Mary breaks free, the son Matt leaves, while those who submit to Browdy’s whims and despotic rule—his wife Margaret and little Nessie—are doomed…