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).