The Open Door

Seaton #3

by Alan Sillitoe

The Open Door follows Saturday Night and Sunday Morning as the final volume in the Seaton series. Returning on a troopship from Malaya in 1949, Brian Seaton (Arthur's brother) comes back to a Nottingham world of rationing, the black market, a wife he no longer loves and a child who does not recognise him. He is full of life and lust, but he has tuberculosis, forcing a long stay in a military hospital where he falls for first one nurse, then a second, while carrying on a relationship with another TB sufferer back in Nottingham. In the background, this partially autobiographical novel reveals that Seaton is starting to write, meeting others like him as he realises there is a wider world than the back streets of his Midlands home.

Genres: Fiction

354 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1989

About the author

Alan Sillitoe was an English writer, one of the "Angry Young Men" of the 1950s (although he, in common with most of the other writers to whom the label was applied, had never welcomed it).
For more see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Sil...

Reviews

[Iris Evelyn · Rating 4 out of 5]

I liked this more than the first two books in the series, and I definitely found Brian more interesting than Arthur. Although I didn't like the amount of cheating he got up to, I did want him to do well. Lillian was my favourite character in the book, and so I did feel bad for her when she died, and I wasn't happy at Brian for it. 3.5/5, but rounded up because Goodreads doesn't believe in half stars