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Bricks and Mortar
'Helen Ashton has the power of writing about people as though she had known them all her life. One feels that one has lived next door to Martin Lovell ever since the day when he first set up house with Letty in chambers on the north side of Gray's Inn Square' wrote the TLS in 1932.
Unusually, Bricks and Mortar is about the life of a London architect from the 1890s to the early 1930s; it is, as well, about a 'very decent, simple, sweet-minded creature' who realises that his marriage has been a mistake yet makes the best of things: because he has dignity, commonsense and kindness, and is 'very much in love with his profession', he has his own special brand of heroism.
Unusually, Bricks and Mortar is about the life of a London architect from the 1890s to the early 1930s; it is, as well, about a 'very decent, simple, sweet-minded creature' who realises that his marriage has been a mistake yet makes the best of things: because he has dignity, commonsense and kindness, and is 'very much in love with his profession', he has his own special brand of heroism.
304 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1932
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Helen Ashton
84 books9 followersHelen Ashton was the daughter of the Arthur J. Ashton, K.C. Encouraged by her father, the author of a delightful book of legal reminiscences, she wrote three juvenile novels, then her literary work was interrupted by WWI and she took up nursing. In 1916 she began studying medicine, working at Great Ormond Street Hospital until her marriage to Arthur Jordan, a barrister twenty years older than herself, in 1927.
Over the next thirty years Ashton published 25 novels: Doctor Serocold (1930), her most successful, was about a day in the life of an English country doctor; Bricks and Mortar (1932) is about the life of an architect over forty years; and from 1941-7 she published an excellent quartet of novels about contemporary village life.
Over the next thirty years Ashton published 25 novels: Doctor Serocold (1930), her most successful, was about a day in the life of an English country doctor; Bricks and Mortar (1932) is about the life of an architect over forty years; and from 1941-7 she published an excellent quartet of novels about contemporary village life.
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April 9, 2018
I found this a somewhat unsatisfying read. The two main characters passively drifted into their marriage and parenthood without a great deal of thought. I found myself unable to care about either of them, or the other characters.
I believe the author was correct in titling the book as she did, because the main character seemed to be architecture itself. I kept wishing I had a background in it so that I could enjoy the descriptions of various buildings more thoroughly. The novel seemed to drift and the surprise ending, while well done, seemed out of place .
I believe the author was correct in titling the book as she did, because the main character seemed to be architecture itself. I kept wishing I had a background in it so that I could enjoy the descriptions of various buildings more thoroughly. The novel seemed to drift and the surprise ending, while well done, seemed out of place .
April 26, 2018
Started out thinking I didn't really care for it and ended up really liking it.
March 15, 2023
What a lovely, moving, quiet 30s novel. I felt like crying at the end. It’s the story of a shy, nice young architect and his family from the time he meets his wife at twenty-three in 1892, up to the early thirties and the end of his life.
It’s about an unremarkable life and the mistakes you make in life that somehow turn into the best by the way you approach it. Martin and Letty are lured into matrimony by her domineering mother who is trying to secure her penniless daughter’s future, but genuinely fall in love. They really have nothing in common, but enjoy and trust each other and are mostly happy together. They have two children, both of which have their own path and troubles but which they try to help with good intentions but not always wisely. The first world war wreaks havoc with all their lives and results in unforeseen bad choices and calamities, but is also a factor for change and a new kind of society.
A big part of the book is about architecture and building houses. Here I was mostly at sea as Ashton with great detail described scaffolding, roofs etc. She obviously was very interested and knowledgeable, and uses her descriptions as a way to show how times change from the nineties to her present day.
At the end, I was quite moved as Martin tried to make sense of his life and how his last thoughts were for the memories of his young sweet wife which he loved all his life in spite of her flaws.
It’s about an unremarkable life and the mistakes you make in life that somehow turn into the best by the way you approach it. Martin and Letty are lured into matrimony by her domineering mother who is trying to secure her penniless daughter’s future, but genuinely fall in love. They really have nothing in common, but enjoy and trust each other and are mostly happy together. They have two children, both of which have their own path and troubles but which they try to help with good intentions but not always wisely. The first world war wreaks havoc with all their lives and results in unforeseen bad choices and calamities, but is also a factor for change and a new kind of society.
A big part of the book is about architecture and building houses. Here I was mostly at sea as Ashton with great detail described scaffolding, roofs etc. She obviously was very interested and knowledgeable, and uses her descriptions as a way to show how times change from the nineties to her present day.
At the end, I was quite moved as Martin tried to make sense of his life and how his last thoughts were for the memories of his young sweet wife which he loved all his life in spite of her flaws.
November 5, 2009
Well-crafted 1930s novel, which was well received in its time and then, as often happens, forgotten--until Persephone 'rescued' it for its ever-increasing pile. As it is, the novel presents an interesting picture of life from the late 18th Century to the 1930s, though understood from the world today one cannot help but feel for each of the characters, constricted as they were by the limitations and prejudices of their era.
The story centers on Martin, a young architect whose true only dream is 'bricks and mortar'--to build houses in his image. Martin is presented as an idealist and, as such, is easily and naively dragged into a less-than-idilic marriage: as men were, in those days, because women and their mothers had few other choices than to find safe, stable marriages for their futures. That the novel is written by a woman who nonetheless paints such an unflattering and uncurious portrait of other women and their choices is rather regrettable. Well, the 'unflattering' aspect might have worked (see: Jane Austen in 'Pride and Prejudice') if it had been accompanied by compassion, empathy and understanding, if the author had placed her characters in a social and psychological context, which she barely does.
The novel is very readable, however, and does offer a fascinating 'bird's view' into a life long past.
The story centers on Martin, a young architect whose true only dream is 'bricks and mortar'--to build houses in his image. Martin is presented as an idealist and, as such, is easily and naively dragged into a less-than-idilic marriage: as men were, in those days, because women and their mothers had few other choices than to find safe, stable marriages for their futures. That the novel is written by a woman who nonetheless paints such an unflattering and uncurious portrait of other women and their choices is rather regrettable. Well, the 'unflattering' aspect might have worked (see: Jane Austen in 'Pride and Prejudice') if it had been accompanied by compassion, empathy and understanding, if the author had placed her characters in a social and psychological context, which she barely does.
The novel is very readable, however, and does offer a fascinating 'bird's view' into a life long past.
April 27, 2018
Delightful 1930s novel, a forgotten gem that has been rediscovered via the wonderful Persephone Books. Architect Martin Lovell, a true innocent abroad, meets Letty Stapleford and her domineering mother at a pension in Rome. He falls in love with Letty and marries her, manipulated without ever fully realising it by Lady Stapleford, and settles to married life in a small flat in London. The novel charts the years of their mismatched but affectionate marriage and family life, and the part played by architecture as Martin's comfort and reward.
This is a gentle and deceptively simple book, yet it lays bare the hopes and disappointments of Martin and Letty and the bittersweet feelings that are occasioned by the passing of time and the recognition that some changes are forever. It is a book that takes you deep into the lives and thoughts of its characters, so that you not only find yourself caring about their fate but also understanding and accepting their weaknesses.
The role of architecture binds the characters together- it is not only Martin's job but his passion. He moves his family from one house to another, his holidays centre around visits to houses and churches, and the changes in architectural fashion mirror the changes in Martin's own life as he ages. This aspect of the novel was far more interesting, and even touching, than I had expected.
Evocative, poignant and absorbing.
This is a gentle and deceptively simple book, yet it lays bare the hopes and disappointments of Martin and Letty and the bittersweet feelings that are occasioned by the passing of time and the recognition that some changes are forever. It is a book that takes you deep into the lives and thoughts of its characters, so that you not only find yourself caring about their fate but also understanding and accepting their weaknesses.
The role of architecture binds the characters together- it is not only Martin's job but his passion. He moves his family from one house to another, his holidays centre around visits to houses and churches, and the changes in architectural fashion mirror the changes in Martin's own life as he ages. This aspect of the novel was far more interesting, and even touching, than I had expected.
Evocative, poignant and absorbing.
August 24, 2014
n a sense Bricks and Mortar is a pretty typical Persephone novel, a largely domestic novel which follow the fortunes of a family across more than three decades. What sets this lovely novel a little apart from the other wonderful domestic set novels which Persephone publish, is that the main point of view in the novel is that of a man and that his career as an architect lies at the centre of the whole story.
“Martin fell in love with Letty quite simply and immediately, without any suspicion that the matter was being arranged for him. He mooned about after her, watched her across the dinner-table with unconcealed adoration, and manoeuvred constantly for a chance to go with her and her domineering, efficient little mother to visit some church or gallery or ruin.”
In 1892 Martin Lovell an awkward, young architect travels to Rome, here he meets Letty Stapleford his future wife. Wanting only to revel in the architecture, ambitious and endearingly passionate about his work, he’s a stuttering nervous young man and no match for Lady Stapleford. Recently returned from India, a widow, Lady Stapleford is almost penniless, her pretty daughter soon to be launched into London society, something Lady Stapleford can little afford. Recognising Martin Lovell to be at least a gentleman – Lady Stapleford sets out to secure the marriage of her daughter to Martin as quickly as possible. Martin Lovell returns to England to begin his career a newly married man, taking a small flat in Gray’s Inn Square. Letty doesn’t share Martin’s love of bricks and mortar, and although the young couple love each other, this is a small irreparable fissure in their relationship.bricksandmortar
Martin starts working for Nicholas Barford, they don’t always agree on architectural matters but rub along fairly well, and in time Martin becomes Barford’s partner and later, following Barford’s retirement takes over the business completely. For lovers of architecture, there is plenty to love in this novel, Martin’s own enthusiasm really very infectious, and Helen Ashton’s descriptions really lovely and seemingly very knowledgeable, and if, like me, you don’t know much about architecture; it really doesn’t matter at all. Martin’s development as an architect is explored brilliantly; with his youthful dreams of cathedral building and his early overly ornate projects later coming to embarrass him.
“standing under the light Renaissance arcade in the vine-wreathed courtyard of the Plantin-Moretius house, he decided, finally and obstinately, that he did not care for Flemish Gothic. There was something sinister, high-shouldered and constricted about the steeply-pitched roofs with their peering suspicious rows of dormer windows, the crowded, intricate tracery of the canopied windows and niches, the florid, soaring multiplicity of pierced belfries and arrowy slender spires. It all seemed as angular and ascetic as the tortured, lean-ribbed saints and prudish, shrinking virgin martyrs in the jewel coloured primitives of the museums. He took much greater delight in this warm sixteenth-century brickwork, these light round arches and tall mullioned windows; they satisfied his domestic and balanced mind.”
Letty and Martin have two children, Anatastasia (known always as Stacy) and Aubrey. Stacy very much her father’s child, takes a delightful interest in his work, while Aubrey his mother’s son, is spoiled and sickly. Letty frequently clashes with her daughter, far preferring her darling boy to the girl she doesn’t really understand, while Martin is often bored and irritated by his son. As the years pass, the family move several times, allowing Martin to put into practise his never waning fascination for houses. Stacy’s passion for bricks and mortar soon almost equals Martin’s and he is able to take comfort in the relationship that develops between them. When Martin takes on a new young architect, Nicholas Barford’s nephew Oliver, he and Stacy seem attracted to one another, something Letty is quick to make plain she’ll never condone. Stacy and Oliver move off in different directions, marrying other people, but almost inevitably come together again following the First World War. During the upheaval to traditional gender roles that came about following The Great War, Stacy finally begins her own architectural training. Her own career is not followed in any great detail, which is a shame; the focus is more on her disastrous first marriage, and her relationship with Oliver Barford.
Although I loved the character of Martin, Stacy really is the star of the show, and I wouldn’t have minded much more of her. The end of the novel is a little overly dramatic perhaps and certainly wasn’t quite what I had expected, but I am maybe just being picky. Overall Bricks and Mortar is a lovely novel, and if you want a novel which explores the changing nature of architecture in Britain in the first thirty years of the twentieth century, then this is certainly the book for you.
“Martin fell in love with Letty quite simply and immediately, without any suspicion that the matter was being arranged for him. He mooned about after her, watched her across the dinner-table with unconcealed adoration, and manoeuvred constantly for a chance to go with her and her domineering, efficient little mother to visit some church or gallery or ruin.”
In 1892 Martin Lovell an awkward, young architect travels to Rome, here he meets Letty Stapleford his future wife. Wanting only to revel in the architecture, ambitious and endearingly passionate about his work, he’s a stuttering nervous young man and no match for Lady Stapleford. Recently returned from India, a widow, Lady Stapleford is almost penniless, her pretty daughter soon to be launched into London society, something Lady Stapleford can little afford. Recognising Martin Lovell to be at least a gentleman – Lady Stapleford sets out to secure the marriage of her daughter to Martin as quickly as possible. Martin Lovell returns to England to begin his career a newly married man, taking a small flat in Gray’s Inn Square. Letty doesn’t share Martin’s love of bricks and mortar, and although the young couple love each other, this is a small irreparable fissure in their relationship.bricksandmortar
Martin starts working for Nicholas Barford, they don’t always agree on architectural matters but rub along fairly well, and in time Martin becomes Barford’s partner and later, following Barford’s retirement takes over the business completely. For lovers of architecture, there is plenty to love in this novel, Martin’s own enthusiasm really very infectious, and Helen Ashton’s descriptions really lovely and seemingly very knowledgeable, and if, like me, you don’t know much about architecture; it really doesn’t matter at all. Martin’s development as an architect is explored brilliantly; with his youthful dreams of cathedral building and his early overly ornate projects later coming to embarrass him.
“standing under the light Renaissance arcade in the vine-wreathed courtyard of the Plantin-Moretius house, he decided, finally and obstinately, that he did not care for Flemish Gothic. There was something sinister, high-shouldered and constricted about the steeply-pitched roofs with their peering suspicious rows of dormer windows, the crowded, intricate tracery of the canopied windows and niches, the florid, soaring multiplicity of pierced belfries and arrowy slender spires. It all seemed as angular and ascetic as the tortured, lean-ribbed saints and prudish, shrinking virgin martyrs in the jewel coloured primitives of the museums. He took much greater delight in this warm sixteenth-century brickwork, these light round arches and tall mullioned windows; they satisfied his domestic and balanced mind.”
Letty and Martin have two children, Anatastasia (known always as Stacy) and Aubrey. Stacy very much her father’s child, takes a delightful interest in his work, while Aubrey his mother’s son, is spoiled and sickly. Letty frequently clashes with her daughter, far preferring her darling boy to the girl she doesn’t really understand, while Martin is often bored and irritated by his son. As the years pass, the family move several times, allowing Martin to put into practise his never waning fascination for houses. Stacy’s passion for bricks and mortar soon almost equals Martin’s and he is able to take comfort in the relationship that develops between them. When Martin takes on a new young architect, Nicholas Barford’s nephew Oliver, he and Stacy seem attracted to one another, something Letty is quick to make plain she’ll never condone. Stacy and Oliver move off in different directions, marrying other people, but almost inevitably come together again following the First World War. During the upheaval to traditional gender roles that came about following The Great War, Stacy finally begins her own architectural training. Her own career is not followed in any great detail, which is a shame; the focus is more on her disastrous first marriage, and her relationship with Oliver Barford.
Although I loved the character of Martin, Stacy really is the star of the show, and I wouldn’t have minded much more of her. The end of the novel is a little overly dramatic perhaps and certainly wasn’t quite what I had expected, but I am maybe just being picky. Overall Bricks and Mortar is a lovely novel, and if you want a novel which explores the changing nature of architecture in Britain in the first thirty years of the twentieth century, then this is certainly the book for you.
February 6, 2016
The life of a mild-mannered English architect from early adulthood circa 1892 for the next 40 years, including an ill-suited but not unhappy marriage, and the fates of his children who are just the right age for the First World War (it's always a horrible moment for me when I see a character being born in the 1890s). There's a lot about architecture and, in places, too much narrative summary to fully engage me emotionally, but a nice, slow, enjoyable book, rather like an old building or a peaceful garden.
January 23, 2016
A young likeable architect marries too young and the rest of the book follows his life. Parts of this book I enjoyed, Stacy and her father were lovely to read about, some parts on architecture I found myself skimming over and Lady Stapleford's views are shocking to the modern ear. I did enjoy the way the book follows a family over the decades and considers the question of what we will leave behind when we are gone.
February 18, 2025
As the title makes obvious this doesn't entirely avoid cliche, but I really enjoyed this interwar tale of a Victorian-Edwardian architectural family: a very good grasp of architecture, with some hilarious moments for the heads, and the characters are all very subtly drawn, even though there's rather a lot of sudden deaths. It's also always salutary to read of how it was axiomatic for everyone from 1890 to 1970 that high Victorian architecture was garbage.
May 10, 2018
In 1892, a young English architect visits Rome to study its architecture and meets his future wife. This story of Martin’s marriage and career in “bricks and mortar” covers four decades and includes details on changes in architectural fashions. The author mostly “tells” her insights into characters, while I prefer an author “show” us those insights through behavior and dialogue. I did enjoy the evolving relationship between Martin and his daughter, Stacy.
January 20, 2017
A typical Persephone novel - life in Britain at the turn of the century. A family story of a young architect, his wife, and the building of their family. Martin, the father, is an architect (hence the title of the book), and although he enters into marriage rather naively, they make a go of it, and we witness their story from marriage through grandchildren. Very touching.
February 24, 2025
I found myself falling in love with this story as I read it. It started quite slow and I didn’t think I would enjoy it, but no, I was wrong, it was quite beautiful.
It’s a quiet sort of book, nothing very remarkable or shocking happens in it, just the telling of Martin and his family’s life.
Martin is an architect who marries, at her mother’s insistence, beautiful sweet Letty after a few weeks of meeting in Rome. They have a life together, two children, and martin becomes moderately successful.
The story really picked up for me when Stacey, Martin and Lettys daughter, starts to become more involved in the story and as we get into the First World War. Martins naivety to his family life I found bother endearing and sad. He loved his wife even though they no longer shared any marital relationship in the sense, and when she died I wept for him.
I was very happy that Stacey and Oliver ended up together.
It’s a quiet sort of book, nothing very remarkable or shocking happens in it, just the telling of Martin and his family’s life.
Martin is an architect who marries, at her mother’s insistence, beautiful sweet Letty after a few weeks of meeting in Rome. They have a life together, two children, and martin becomes moderately successful.
The story really picked up for me when Stacey, Martin and Lettys daughter, starts to become more involved in the story and as we get into the First World War. Martins naivety to his family life I found bother endearing and sad. He loved his wife even though they no longer shared any marital relationship in the sense, and when she died I wept for him.
I was very happy that Stacey and Oliver ended up together.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
January 9, 2019
3.5
I love Persephone Books! I own 11 of this imprint but I'm ashamed to say I haven't read them all, so one of my resolutions this year is to rectify the situation.
While I enjoyed this book, I can't say I really loved it. It becomes quite dull and tedious at times, but the writing is spot on so that kept me from abandoning it completely. It also doesn't help when you're reading a novel and don't care much for the main character that much, as was the case here. I'm not really selling this one am I?
Definitely give the Persephone books a go, but pick one of the other fine titles in their catalog!
I love Persephone Books! I own 11 of this imprint but I'm ashamed to say I haven't read them all, so one of my resolutions this year is to rectify the situation.
While I enjoyed this book, I can't say I really loved it. It becomes quite dull and tedious at times, but the writing is spot on so that kept me from abandoning it completely. It also doesn't help when you're reading a novel and don't care much for the main character that much, as was the case here. I'm not really selling this one am I?
Definitely give the Persephone books a go, but pick one of the other fine titles in their catalog!
January 23, 2021
Another terrific read from Persephone. About totally ordinary things . It covers 40 years in the life of an ok ish architect, and architecture becomes a character in the story. A little hard to get into but so very rewarding. Every architect and engineer should read it. Has a great ending too. Loved it.
November 30, 2022
I found this book in near pristine condition at a thrift store in Ottawa. I don't think the book has aged well. Character of Letty was under developed and very stereotypical Victorian housewife. I felt sympathetic towards Mrs Barford and couldn't find fault with her. Oliver reminded me of Gordon Gekko or Fountainhead protagonist.
September 11, 2023
What I liked about this book was the everyday aspect of it. The characters are not leaders in their field, their personal lives can not be called tumultous, the mistakes they make and predjucices they have all those of the everyday person. And it is all the more compelling for it, though still a quiet read.
July 25, 2023
A really lovely novel about a man who loves his profession and makes the best of a less-than-perfect family. Some very good writing about architecture, particularly the development of modernism in the 30s. Fifth star is for Le Corbusier getting a shout-out.
April 16, 2026
Interesting- for the subject matter of architecture through the story of 40 years or so in the life of the main character- and for the 1930s account of the impact of the first world war. A little plodding in parts- and a little over the top in the death count- but an interesting, melancholy, tale.
June 17, 2019
3.5 stars
September 8, 2021
3.5 stars
November 2, 2021
All tell, not show.
February 27, 2017
Beautiful book about a quiet, gentle, good man.
August 3, 2024
BRICKS AND MORTAR is, mostly, a nice book about nice people. (With some caveats.)
It follows Martin through his whole adulthood, from when he's twenty-three and just getting married to Letty, through to his death forty years later.
Most of what follows is going to be somewhat negative, which may make it sound like I dislike the book, but I don't! I liked it; it's just that that like is tempered by some authorial choices.
To start: I LOATHED Oliver. He's a misogynistic pig, and Stacy deserves much better. So Oliver is Martin's assistant in the architectural firm he owns. Stacy is Martin's daughter. Letty tries her best to keep them apart, because she thinks Stacy can do better (she's not wrong). This is supposed to have ruined both their lives. Whatever. Stacy won't be the first female character to throw themselves away on an awful male one (*cough* Jane Eyre *cough*). But the narrative never really seems to get that Oliver sucks, either. It buys in to the great tragedy of his life, and spares no remorse for his dead wife. (Very JANE EYRE again I suppose!) Oliver is supposed to be better than Stacy's last husband, who beat her, but I'm not convinced that Oliver didn't emotionally abuse his first wife. I don't trust him.
I couldn't really go beyond LIKING the novel with the big fat slug of Oliver spreading his slime all over it. He takes up so much more of the narrative than he needs to.
There's also the fact that Martin never really takes Stacy's architectural dreams seriously, even when it seems like he does. Oliver is ‘brilliant’; Stacy is ‘competent’. It's so hard to tell if this is intentional character work, or just plain sexism on the part of Martin and/or Helen Ashton.
The structure and pacing are a little off, too. For a book that covers forty years, it's quite short. So much is glossed over. It has to be, but I wonder if TOO much might have been.
But, all this to say, I DID enjoy reading BRICKS AND MORTAR. I just wish it was a little better.
It follows Martin through his whole adulthood, from when he's twenty-three and just getting married to Letty, through to his death forty years later.
Most of what follows is going to be somewhat negative, which may make it sound like I dislike the book, but I don't! I liked it; it's just that that like is tempered by some authorial choices.
To start: I LOATHED Oliver. He's a misogynistic pig, and Stacy deserves much better. So Oliver is Martin's assistant in the architectural firm he owns. Stacy is Martin's daughter. Letty tries her best to keep them apart, because she thinks Stacy can do better (she's not wrong). This is supposed to have ruined both their lives. Whatever. Stacy won't be the first female character to throw themselves away on an awful male one (*cough* Jane Eyre *cough*). But the narrative never really seems to get that Oliver sucks, either. It buys in to the great tragedy of his life, and spares no remorse for his dead wife. (Very JANE EYRE again I suppose!) Oliver is supposed to be better than Stacy's last husband, who beat her, but I'm not convinced that Oliver didn't emotionally abuse his first wife. I don't trust him.
I couldn't really go beyond LIKING the novel with the big fat slug of Oliver spreading his slime all over it. He takes up so much more of the narrative than he needs to.
There's also the fact that Martin never really takes Stacy's architectural dreams seriously, even when it seems like he does. Oliver is ‘brilliant’; Stacy is ‘competent’. It's so hard to tell if this is intentional character work, or just plain sexism on the part of Martin and/or Helen Ashton.
The structure and pacing are a little off, too. For a book that covers forty years, it's quite short. So much is glossed over. It has to be, but I wonder if TOO much might have been.
But, all this to say, I DID enjoy reading BRICKS AND MORTAR. I just wish it was a little better.
October 21, 2014
Was very tempted to put down after first 100 pages. Too domestic womans type story. Very simple story of a family's four decades in England 1890 to 1930 or so. Last 200 pages a bit interesting but will not read any more this author's works. I finished in two hours ago and do not remember the names of the main characters. .
January 16, 2011
While i found the book dated, it was an enjoyable read, and a peak at a segment of British society in the early 1900s.
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