The Fountain Overflows

A talented, eccentric London family tries to find their place in the world in this semiautobiographical novel by a New York Times?bestselling author. ? Papa Aubrey?s wife and twin daughters, Mary and Rose, are piano prodigies, his young son Richard Quin is a lively boy, and his eldest daughter Cordelia is a beautiful and driven young woman with musical aspirations. But the talented and eccentric Aubrey family rarely enjoys a moment of harmony, as its members struggle to overcome the effects of their patriarch?s spendthrift ways. Now they must move so that their father, a noted journalist, can find stable employment. Throughout, it is the Aubreys? hope that art will save them from the cacophony of a life sliding toward poverty. ? In this eloquent and winning portrait, West?s compelling characters must uncover their true talent for kindness in order to thrive in the world that exists outside of their life as a family.