Eye of the Storm: A Novel (1st Picador ed.)

In White's 1973 classic, terrifying matriarch Elizabeth Hunter is facing death while her impatient children-Sir Basil, the celebrated actor, and Princess de Lascabane, an adoptive French aristocrat-wait.

It is the dying mother who will command attention, and who in the midst of disaster will look into the eye of the storm. "e;An antipodean King Lear writ gentle and tragicomic, almost Chekhovian . . . The Eye of the Storm [is] an intensely dramatic masterpiece"e; (The Australian).