Hatter's Castle

Hatter's Castle (1935) is a novel by the Scottish writer A.J. Cronin. It is set in the fictional Scottish town of Levenford on the Clyde estuary and tells the story of a hatter called James Brodie whose pride and arrogance gradually destroy his family and life. It was made into a successful movie in 1941 (see Hatter's Castle (movie)). Hatter's Castle retains considerable power but is also melodramatic and often contrived and Cronin was accused in the 1930s of plagiarizing George Douglas Brown's novel The House with Green Shutters (1903).