# The Flint Anchor

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- Book: [The Flint Anchor](https://www.bookquiver.com/sylvia-townsend-warner/the-flint-anchor) ([The Flint Anchor.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/sylvia-townsend-warner/the-flint-anchor.md))
- Authors: [Sylvia Townsend Warner](https://www.bookquiver.com/sylvia-townsend-warner)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4199-480-2
- Published: 2021-03-25
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Pillar of society and stern upholder of Victorian values, god-fearing Norfolk merchant John Barnard presides over a large and largely unhappy family. This is their story - his brandy-swilling wife, their hapless offspring and their changing fortunes - over the decades. Sylvia Townsend Warner's last novel, The Flint Anchor gloriously overturns our ideas of history, family and storytelling itself.