His wife, Henrietta, grows and matures and eventually comes into her own to fulfill a critical role.

Adam took the guilt to heart and ceased caring about anything other than causes that dealt with abusing others for about a month. The notion of an established church or credo representing the nation at prayer stretches back through history and lingers on, to almost everyone's dissatisfaction, in the current Church of England.A series of coincidences and his own ambition/personality enables him to start a haulage business that is based in London and soon has branches in every major region in England and Wales. If you're not a robot, your comment will eventually show up and I will respond, with a few exceptions.

There is a big age gap between them, so Henrietta has a lot of growing to do in the novel to become an adult. The average Brit was in fact a relative of a peasant who had been tossed by need into the provincial towns or London, just like so many ’internal immigrants’ who arrived in Catalonia from (other) parts of rural Spain in the 1950s and ‘60s. They are not notably interest ing or likable people; but they are real, and Adam in par ticular seems just the sort of self‐confident, intelligent gam bler who, no doubt, created many of the business empires of the last century.Ronald Frederick Delderfield was a popular English novelist and dramatist, many of whose works have been adapted for television and are still widely read. His wife had died giving birth to Henrietta and he valued her as a possession to be used to gain more wealth.

I was glad I read it on my Kindle so that I could use the Oxford dictionary as I encountered unfamiliar words and usages. The novels are concerned with the portrayal 'ordinary, decent folk', striving to 'get on' and become a success, whilst remaining true to themselves and their values.We take pride in offering a wide selection of used books, from classics to hidden gems, ensuring there is something for every literary palate. Adam also bucks convention and impulsively marries a runaway teen, the daughter of a true industrial revolution mill-owning brute. There is one character in particular who remembers the glory days of coaching and coaching inns and hates the incursion of the railroad.