What's Bred in the Bone
First edition | |
| Author | Robertson Davies |
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| Language | English |
| Series | The Cornish Trilogy |
| Genre | literary |
| Publisher | Macmillan of Canada |
Publication date | 1985 |
| Publication place | Canada |
| Media type | Print (Hardback, Paperback) |
| Pages | 436 |
| ISBN | 0-7715-9684-7 |
| OCLC | 27129845 |
| Preceded by | The Rebel Angels |
| Followed by | The Lyre of Orpheus |
What's Bred in the Bone is the second novel in the Canadian writer Robertson Davies' Cornish Trilogy. It is the life story of Francis or Frank Cornish, whose death and will were the starting point for the first novel, The Rebel Angels.