Product details
- ISBN 9781785308383
- Weight: 152g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 28 Aug 2025
- Publisher: Bonnier Books Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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'A sumptuous, superbly immersive epic: witty, with gutsy, beautifully drawn characters'
- Adele Parks MBE
The second instalment in the Wax Fruit Trilogy, chronicling the triumphs and trials of the Moorhouse family in Victorian Glasgow.
The Moorhouses face a new wave of uncertainty as romantic entanglements and shifting fortunes complicate the family hierarchy.
Phoebe's engagement is thrown into doubt by financial ruin. Mungo's surprise marriage into the aristocracy brings prestige - and unexpected pressures. Meanwhile, Bel wants to ensure the security of the Moorhouse family and urges her brother-in-law David to find a suitable match.
As personal desires clash with family duty, the Moorhouses must decide what truly matters: love, loyalty or legacy.
'Wax Fruit recaptures the atmosphere of the period most effectively' - The Herald
'Very fine indeed' - Glasgow Evening Citizen
Guy McCrone (1898-1977) w as born in Birkenhead. He was educated at Glasgow
Academy, going on to read modern languages at Pembroke College, Cambridge,
before studying singing in Vienna. Glasgow provided the inspiration for many of
McCrone's novels, including Antimacassar City, The Philistines and The Puritans,
which were published as Wax Fruit in 1947. McCrone retired to the Lake District in
1968, where he died at Windermere in May 1977.
