# The Jagged Window

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- Book: [The Jagged Window](https://www.bookquiver.com/wendy-robertson/the-jagged-window) ([The Jagged Window.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/wendy-robertson/the-jagged-window.md))
- Authors: [Wendy Robertson](https://www.bookquiver.com/wendy-robertson)
- Publisher: headline
- ISBN: 978-07-4725-978-7
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2000-02-03
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Edward Maichin is the golden boy of the Chapels. But at home, Edward's hidden darkness runs riot: his Irish Catholic mother, has no control over him since his father, Ellis, fled to America; his two brothers, Rhys and Caspar, live in fear of him. Only Theo, his imaginative younger sister, dares defy him. A suspicious death halts Edward's rise, forcing the family out of the valley, to the mines of the North-East, where Theo's talent for writing begins to match her brother's skills in social climbing. But when Theo takes a position as companion to a strange old woman, she discovers a family even more complex and vulnerable than her own...