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Chronicling the fates of six English families, this chronicle of England in the twentieth century examines the circumstances of birth, class, economic opportunity, and social custom that define the lives of ordinary English people.
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England's industrial North and agricultural South have long stood as two nations in the country's consciousness, and in this illuminating chronicle of six representative contemporary English families Beryl Bainbridge shows how and examines why. Out of the crisp narrative accounts of their day-to-day lives, which are augmented throughout by the author's own personal anecdotes and telling reminiscences, emerges a portrait not so much of two nations defined by the geographical borders that divide them as of six families bound by the circumstances of birth, class, economic opportunity, and social custom that confine them.
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