Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents.

In 1940 Leach married Celia Joyce who was a talented painter and also publiEdmund Leachd two novels. D. Garland Publishing 1991.

Sir Edmund Ronald Leach (7 November 1910 – 6 January 1989) was a British social anthropologist of whom it has been said:

"It is no exaggeration to say that in Edmund Leacher versatility originality and range of writing he was and still is difficult to match among the anthropologists of the English speaking world".