The Dreaming Suburb

The Dreaming Suburb - Paperback

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The Dreaming Suburb

The Dreaming Suburb - Paperback

by Ronald Frederick Delderfield
$24.99
Sale price  $24.99 Regular price 

Book Overview

Between the wars, the lives of four neighboring English families intersect in this "highly recommended" saga by a New York Times-bestselling author (Sunday Express).

In the spring of 1919, his wife's death brings Sergeant Jim Carver home from the front. He returns to be a single parent to his seven children in a place he has never lived: Number Twenty, Manor Park Avenue, in a South London suburb.

The Carvers' neighbor Eunice Fraser, at Number Twenty-Two, has also known tragedy. Her soldier husband was killed, leaving her and her eight-year-old son, Esme, to fend for themselves.

At Number Four, Edith Clegg takes in lodgers and looks after her sister, Becky, whose mind has been shattered by a past trauma.

No one knows much about the Friths, at Number Seventeen, who moved to the Avenue before the war.

The first book in the two-part historical series the Avenue, which also includes The Avenue Goes to War, The Dreaming Suburb takes readers into the everyday lives of these English families between World War I and World War II, as their hopes, dreams, and struggles are played out against a radically changing world.
ISBN9781504049290
Author Ronald Frederick Delderfield
PublisherOpen Road Media
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedJanuary 2018
LanguageENG- English
Pages581
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Ronald Frederick Delderfield

R. F. Delderfield (1912-1972) wrote Imperial Sunset: The Fall of Napoleon, 1813-1814, and the novels God Is an Englishman and Theirs Was the Kingdom.

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