The Wax Fruit Trilogy: Antimacassar City

Follow the epic life and times of the Moorhouse family as they rise from the obscurity of an Ayrshire farm to wealth and prosperity in Victorian GlasgowIn 1870s Glasgow, Arthur Moorhouse, a savvy businessman, and his wife Bel, driven by ruthless social ambition, lay the foundation of their family empire.

About the author

Guy McCrone was born in 1898 in Birkenhead. He was educated at Glasgow Academy and Penbroke College, Cambridge. He is also the author of numerous other novels, including Aunt Bell (1949), The Hayburn Family (1952), and An Independent Young Man (1961). He died in 1977.

Product details

• Authors: McCrone Guy
• Publisher: Bonnier Zaffre
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 03.07.2025
• EAN: 9781785308369
• ISBN: 978-1-78530-836-9
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: The Wax Fruit Trilogy
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Sagas, FICTION / Historical / General, FICTION / Sagas, Historical fiction, Scotland, FICTION / Romance / Historical / Victorian, FICTION / Small Town & Rural, Family life fiction, Saga fiction (family / generational sagas)