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.Author: Ronald Frederick Delderfield
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media LLC
Published: 01/09/2018
Series: Avenue #1
Pages: 581
Weight: 1.44lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.25w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9781504049290
Language: English
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