Keepers of the House

Keepers of the House is the debut novel of Lisa St Aubin de Terán, published as The Long Way Home in the US. The novel is autobiographical[1] and set in a Venezuelan valley beset by drought. First published in 1982 by Jonathan Cape it won the Somerset Maugham Award.

This article is about the novel by Lisa St Aubin de Terán. For the novel by Shirley Ann Grau, see The Keepers of the House.
Keepers of the House
First edition
AuthorLisa St Aubin de Terán
Cover artistJenny Tylden-Wright
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
PublisherJonathan Cape (UK)
Harper & Row (US)
Publication date
1982
Media typePrint
Pages192
ISBN0-224-02001-3

Plot introduction

The story concerns Lydia an Englishwoman who has married Diego, the second to last survivor of the Beltrán family. They return to La Bebella, a dilapidated mansion on a neglected estate upon which years of drought and disease have taken their toll. Only Benito, her husband's retainer, remains and when her husband becomes depressed and a virtual recluse, Lydia has to take on the management of the estate with its sparse avocado and sugar cane crops. Benito recounts to her the history of the family and its gradual decline and it is this history and the characters concerned which forms the bulk of the narrative.,

gollark: (periodic table codes! though technically under my scheme it doesn't count as one)
gollark: Ah, yes, calcium carbonate.
gollark: I saw it, went past it, thought "oh wait that's actually a chicken" and got it somehow.
gollark: Might be.
gollark: I caught a chicken! In the cave!

References
  1. Geoffrey Elborn, "Lisa St. Aubin de Teran Biography" jrank.org.,


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