About the book: 1995 / "The Time of Angels" - a novel that elegantly, cleverly and evilly parodies the classic cliches of Victorian and post-Victorian "family prose". An ancient mansion in the heart of England becomes the stage on which dramas of love, hatred and betrayal, almost ancient in intensity, are played out. Respectable intellectuals indulge in self-destructive passions with pleasure, ordinary life turns into insane chaos, engulfing human destinies, and attempts to find purification and redemption only lead to new tragedies…