The House

Cedric Stewart returns from post-World War II London to visit his dying father in the family home near Killiney. Ireland. Estranged from his parents with their 'stiff Protestant notions', he finds renewed solace in Theresa, the Catholic housekeeper whom he has loved since his youth. Through flashbacks to his childhood and previous trips to this house with which he has a love-hate relationship, Cedric tries to recover a sense of his own place in the world. This beautifully crafted novel resonates as warmly today as it did on first publication and reaffirms Bardwell's place among the great Irish writers. Of Bardwell's previous novel. Mother to a Stranger.