Pleased that the local library is open again post lockdown; I am probably borrowing too many books, and the choices there are quite limited. This looked (obviously) quite good, but I took little away with it.
A family saga, set between 1890 and 1913 about a Manchester manufacturing company. Eldest son follows father into the business and becomes quite right wing politicised, daughter one a proto-suffragette, and daughter two who drifts into the Bohemian world as the 19th century comes to a close and into the first world war. Claude, the slightly strange son of the father, is killed in the trenches.
The best, an elegiac picture of a society drifting towards war – not much else to it. Quite well written.
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