There is no Frigate like a Book To take us Lands away, Nor any Coursers like a Page Of prancing Poetry – This Traverse may the poorest take Without oppress of Toll – How frugal is the Chariot That bears a Human soul.
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
61. Dreaming Suburbs
By R. L. Delderfield
Rated:★★★★★
Set in the period between 1919 and 1940 this is Volume 1 of "The Avenue" an old favorite and another step along the path of my Great Reread Adventure.
The story which follows the residents of a middle-class suburban road begins shortly after the end of World War I with the return of one resident, who finds that his wife has died in the Spanish Flue epidemic and left him with several children to care for and ends shortly after Dunkirk.
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