Humbug : a study in education

A wry, sharply observed portrait opens on a household where “good” intentions are twisted into a subtle form of misinformation. The Stellenthorpes are presented as archetypes of earnest but misguided educators, a mother whose instinct to shield her children becomes an elaborate reshaping of moral truth, and a father who refuses to confront uncomfortable realities. Into this environment arrives Lily, a pretty, emotionally vivid teenager, and her older sister Yvonne, whose quiet