Résumé :
This is the story of an avenue in a suburb, and of the people who lived there between the long, dry summers of 1919 and 1940. A period when war had just ended and yet another had just begun.
It is a story of boom and slump, full employment, mass unemployment, new freedoms and new restrictions, hope, faith and despair. A tale of general strike and hunger marches in the era of The Jazz Singer, the Charleston and Amy Johnson. Of the sinister Blackshirts and « Peace In Our Time » – and war.
Above all, this famous novel is the story of the British people during two of its most momentous decades.