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The Dreaming Suburb by R.F. Delderfield
4.0
It is both a joy and a sorrow to discover an author after he or she has died. On the one hand, their entire life's work opens up for your enjoyment, but on the other you can rarely look forward to new work being published. This book and its sequel are the last of Delderfield's major historical works that I hadn't read yet, so I started it with a sense of melancholy.
This book isn't so much a novel as a loosely connected series of vignettes exploring human nature, as well as the attitudes and ideas unique to English suburbs between the two world wars. I would almost call this a narrative anthropology, and would recommend it to anyone who likes examining people to see what makes them tick.
This book isn't so much a novel as a loosely connected series of vignettes exploring human nature, as well as the attitudes and ideas unique to English suburbs between the two world wars. I would almost call this a narrative anthropology, and would recommend it to anyone who likes examining people to see what makes them tick.