''The Fool of the Family'' is a 1930 novel by the British writer

Margaret Kennedy Margaret Davies, Lady Davies (née Kennedy ; 23 April 1896 – 31 July 1967) was an English novelist and playwright. Her most successful work, as a novel and as a play, was '' The Constant Nymph''. She was a productive writer and several of her ...

. It is the sequel to her 1924 bestseller '' The Constant Nymph''.Hartley, Cathy. ''A Historical Dictionary of British Women''. (2nd) Routledge, 2013. p. 526. . In 1934, Kennedy adapted the novel into a play '' Escape Me Never'' which in turn had two film adaptations, '' Escape Me Never'' (1935) and '' Escape Me Never'' (1947).

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* *Stringer, Jenny & Sutherland, John. ''The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-century Literature in English''. Oxford University Press, 1996. . 1930 British novels Novels by Margaret Kennedy Novels set in Italy Novels set in London Heinemann (publisher) books British novels adapted into plays British novels adapted into films {{1930s-novel-stub