The dreaming suburb - R.F. Delderfield (Book 1: 1919 - 1940)

1919

A brilliantly readable novel of England during these tremendous years

This is a story of an avenue in a suburb, and of the people who lived there between the long, dry summers of 1919 and 1940. A period when war had just ended and yet another had just begun.

It is a story of boom and slump, full employment, mass unemployment, new freedoms and new restrictions, hope, faith and despair. A tale of general strike and hunger marches in the era of The Jazz Singer, the Charleston and Amy Johnson. Of the sinister Blackshirts and "Peace In our Time" - and war.

Above all, this famous novel is the story of the British people during two of its most momentous decades.