Wax Fruit Trilogy
Guy McCrone (REPRINT)

CATEGORY CLASSIC FICTION
PUB DATE APRIL 2004
ISBN 1 873631 21 9
EXTENT 624 PP.
PRICE £8.99
FORMAT 198 x 129 P/B


See also The Hayburn Family and Aunt Bel.

The Wax Fruit Trilogy brings together Guy McCrones three classic novels, Antimacassar City, The Philistines and The Puritans, which chronicle the life and times of the Moorhouse family as they rise from the obscurity of an Ayrshire farm to a position of great prosperity in Victorian Glasgow.

The first part of the trilogy introduces the Moorhouse family Arthur, the successful businessman and the first of the family to move to Glasgow; David, the dashing and impulsive socialite; Bel, driven by ruthless social ambition; and Phoebe, the half-sister from the Highlands who grows up to be a great beauty. The second and third volumes follow the changing fortunes of the family, as their lives are touched by triumph and tragedy in Glasgow at the height of the Victorian era and in Vienna, the glittering capital of the Hapsburg Empire.

Wax Fruit recaptures the atmosphere of the period most effectively
Glasgow Herald

'Very fine indeed. . . McCrone know just about everything a man can know about the Glasgow of those days
Glasgow Evening Citizen