The Fountain Overflows – Rebecca West

Set in the fading golden glow of Edwardian London, Rebecca West’s celebrated semi-autobiographical novel introduces the unforgettable Aubrey family. Narrated by young Rose Aubrey, the story paints an intimate, shimmering portrait of a household brimming with artistic brilliance, fierce loyalty, and perpetual financial insecurity. At its center is Clare Aubrey, a gifted concert pianist who has sacrificed her own career to raise her four children, and her husband Piers, a charismatic, reckless journalist and political pamphleteer whose gambling debts keep the family constantly on the brink of ruin.

As Rose and her sisters navigate music lessons, eccentric neighbors, ghostly encounters, and the growing shadow of their father’s unpredictability, the family’s devotion to art and to one another holds them together. Rich, witty, and deeply humane, „The Fountain Overflows” is a twentieth-century classic of British literature.