The Town House (House Trilogy)

The first in a trilogy of novels about the inhabitants of a Suffolk house 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 which culminates in the building of the House, and the foundations of a dynasty.