The Town House" is the first in a trilogy of novels by Norah Lofts about the inhabitants of a country house in Suffolk from the late fourteenth century to the middle of the twentieth. It begins with the story of Martin Reed, a serf existing under the control of a universally accepted and supported hierarchy. His rebellion, in defence of the woman he loves, casts both of them into the unknown. Freed from his acceptance of circumstance, Reed forges a new path, a path which culminates in the building of the House, and the foundations of a dynasty.
Norah Lofts, née Norah Ethel Robinson was a 20th-century British writer.
She also wrote under the pen names Peter Curtis and Juliet Astley.
She wrote more than fifty books specialising in historical fiction, but she also wrote some mysteries, short stories and non-fiction.
Many of her novels, including her Suffolk Trilogy, follow the history of specific houses and their residents over several generations.
