Vroege RecensentenIvy Compton-Burnett

Headmaster and self-avowed intellectual Nicholas Herrick is ever anxious to keep up appearances. Firmly convicted that to involve himself in the running of his own school would be an abasement too far, he assembles around himself a cast of fittingly fawning friends and aides. As he prepares to unveil his final masterpiece, a novel he had thought himself incapable of writing, it is these very friends who threaten to be his undoing. Described in contemporary reviews as ‘a work of genius’, Pastors and Masters was an early work of a gifted author, noted for her rare skill for dialogue and for her incredible adeptness in capturing domestic scenes.