Bleak House by Charles Dickens Paperback Book 9780141439723

As the interminable case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce grinds its way through the Court of Chancery it draws together a disparate group of people Ada and Richard Clare whose inheritance is gradually being devoured by legal costs Esther Summerson a ward of court whose parentage is a source of deepening mystery the menacing lawyer Tulkinghorn