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.