Wax Fruit Trilogy: Antimacassar City

'A sumptuous, superbly immersive epic: witty, with gutsy, beautifully drawn characters'- Adele Parks MBEThe first novel in Guy McCrone's beloved Wax Fruit Trilogy, chronicling the rise - and trials - of the Moorhouse family in Victorian Glasgow.Glasgow: the second city of the Empire. A booming metropolis where fortunes are made, reputations forged, andambition knows no bounds. Into this world steps Arthur Moorhouse, a determined young man who has risen from modest beginnings in rural Ayrshire to establish a thriving merchant business and a name for his family.But success comes at a cost. As the Moorhouses climb the social ladder, they face fierce rivalries, internal tensions, and the ever-watchful eyes of Glasgow's elite. When tragedy strikes, Arthur and his spirited new wife, Bel, take in his orphaned halfsister, Phoebe - a bold and determined young woman whose arrival will alter the family's destiny.Set against the backdrop of a city in transformation, Antimacassar City is a sweeping tale of ambition, loyalty, and the price of progress. As the Moorhouses rise, so too do the stakes - because the higher you climb, the harder the fall.'Wax Fruit recaptures the atmosphere of the period most effectively' - The Herald'Very fine indeed' - Glasgow Evening Citizen

Guy McCrone (1898-1977) was born in Birkenhead. He was educated at Glasgow Academy, going on to read modern languages at Pembroke College, Cambridge, before studying singing in Vienna. Glasgow provided the inspiration for many of McCrone's novels, including Antimacassar City, The Philistines and The Puritans, which were published as Wax Fruit in 1947. McCrone retired to the Lake District in 1968, where he died at Windermere in May 1977.