Books like The Eye of the Storm
Elizabeth Hunter, old, rich and dying in her Sydney house, receives her children, an actor from London and a princess by marriage from France, who have come home for the inheritance.
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The Vivisector
Hurtle Duffield, sold as a small boy by his poor parents to a rich Sydney family, grows up to become a painter who will use everyone he loves as material.
The Twyborn Affair
Before the First World War, Eudoxia Vatzatzis lives as the young companion of an elderly Greek on the French Riviera, the first of the lives of Eddie Twyborn, a Sydney judge's son.
Never Mind
Patrick Melrose, son of a cruel English aristocrat and an American heiress, from a childhood summer in the South of France through addiction, marriage and fatherhood.
The Gentleman from San Francisco
A rich American of fifty-eight, who has worked all his life to enjoy himself, sails for the Old World with his wife and daughter on a luxury liner and arrives on Capri.
The Knot of Vipers
Louis, a rich, embittered old lawyer near Bordeaux, writes a long letter to his wife, to be found after his death, explaining his hatred for the family that is waiting for his money.
Extinctions
Frederick Lothian, a retired engineer, has moved into a retirement village to be left alone, and his neighbour Jan refuses to let him.
Maps
Askar, an orphan raised by Misra, an Ethiopian woman in the Ogaden, grows up as war comes between Somalia and Ethiopia, and between him and the woman who raised him.
The Wings of the Dove
A dying heiress in London is surrounded by people who love her for her money, and the novel's delicate moral architecture reveals who is capable of genuine feeling.
The House of Sleeping Beauties
Old Eguchi visits a secret seaside inn where elderly men pay to spend the night beside young women drugged into a deep sleep, and each night brings back memories of his life.
Mr. Sammler's Planet
Artur Sammler, a Polish Jew who survived the Holocaust by climbing out of a mass grave, now in his seventies, watches the Upper West Side of the late 1960s through one good eye.
Malone Dies
Malone, old and bedridden in a room he does not remember coming to, passes the time until his death telling himself stories and taking an inventory of his possessions.
The Eye of the Sheep
Jimmy Flick, a boy who sees the world differently, lives with his loving mother and his violent father in a house in the suburbs of Melbourne.