The most popular novel by the famous prose writer Archibald Cronin. Many people know the English proverb “My home is my castle.” And few people manage to find out the secrets of an English house, to see “tears invisible to the world.” However, James Brodie's house became not a fortress; for his family members it turned into a real prison. The eldest daughter Mary breaks out of it, her son Mat leaves, but those who resign themselves to Brody’s tyranny and despotism - his wife Margaret and baby Nessie - are doomed...