{"product_id":"9780007373840","title":"The Knox Brothers","description":"\u003cp\u003ePenelope Fitzgerald, the Booker Prize-winning author of ‘Offshore’ and ‘The Blue Flower’, turns her attention to the story of her remarkable family.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen I was very young I took my uncles for granted, and it never occurred to me that everyone else in the world was not like them.’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePenelope Fitzgerald turns her novelist’s gaze on the quite extraordinary lives of her father and his three brothers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdmund Knox, her father, was one of the most successful editors of Punch. Dillwyn, ‘Dilly’, a Cambridge Greek scholar, was the first to crack the Enigma code and in so doing, is estimated to have shortened the Second World War by six months. Wilfred became a priest and welfare worker in the East End of London. Ronald was Roman Catholic chaplain to Oxford University’s student body, preacher, wit, scholar, crime-writer and translator of the Bible.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA homage to a long-forgotten world and a fascinating account of the generation straddling the divide between late Victorian and Edwardian.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penelope Fitzgerald, Introduction by Richard Holmes","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47284738457749,"sku":"9780007373840","price":11.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9780007373840.jpg?v=1776992244","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9780007373840","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}