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This an absorbing story of multi-generations set in Wales and England during the early and mid-twentieth century. The story centers around their obsession with their grand house, Oxmoon, and the internecine struggles to become the owner of the property. Greed, sex, illness, sibling rivalry, madness, murder, cover-ups, and many more elements combine to keep the reader wondering what is going to happen next. A doomed family in many ways, the Godwins represent the upper class Welsh/British failure
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