278 pages
English language
Published 1999 by Harcourt Brace.
4 stars
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Years in insurance and marriage to the joyless Hilda have been no more than death in life to George Bowling. This and fear of another war take his mind back to the peace of his childhood in a small country town. But his return journey to Lower Binfield brings complete disillusionment.
Subjects
- Insurance agents -- Fiction
- Middle-aged men -- Fiction
- Married people -- Fiction
- Suburban life -- Fiction
- England -- Fiction