Doomsday

by Warwick Deeping

Furze is a WW I veteran struggling with life on his farm, Doomsday, in Sussex. He meets two different types of women, each which teach him about life.

Genres: Fiction, Historical Fiction

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1927

About the author

George Warwick Deeping was a prolific novelist and short story writer, who is best known for his 1925 novel "Sorrell and Son."

Deeping was educated at Merchant Taylors' School, then Trinity College, Cambridge to study medicine and science, and then to Middlesex Hospital to finish his medical training. During the First World War, he served in the Royal Army Medical Corps. He later gave up his job as a doctor to become a full-time writer.

Deeping's early work was primarily historical romances. His later novels can be seen as attempts at keeping alive the spirit of the Edwardian age. He was one of the best selling authors of the 1920s and 1930s, with seven of his novels making the best-seller list. His short fiction also appeared in several US magazines, including the Saturday Evening Post and Adventure.

Reviews

[Dorcas]

This would have been 4 stars but I started to dislike the main male character as he became hardened with life and made some ridiculously bad decisions. Mistreatment of women was portrayed as though "she had it coming for testing me" It was kind of unusual for a Deeping book. Not a reread for me