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It really is 1919 shortly after the termination of the very first Western european holocaust. Henry Earlforward, a middle aged North London Bookseller, courts and marries Violet Arb, a widow that has inherited the confectioners shop opposite his own premises in Riceyman Square. Henry and Violet engage the services of Elsie as 'charwoman'. The matrimony outwardly is apparently successful, although Henry has also inherited which is no esteemed native of the district and Violet moreover - having been a nomadic traveller because of the needs of her overdue husband's occupation, and her entrenched perception in class variances. But Henry has a monstrous enthusiasm which transcends his love for Violet, his resolute conviction for thrift. This flaw will ultimately kill him and his better half and has resounding implications for those within his immediate circle. Elsie, also a widow, stolidly sustains her love for Joe, a mental casualty of the recent conflict, despite his incapability to surmount his personal torment.This novel established Bennett securely on a pinnacle of literary accomplishment with a foothold in both 19th and 20th centuries. It is a brilliant, clinical dissection of your troubled matrimony, in stressed times and, at its centre, an aggravating damage that 'will out'.