A bestselling novel of the ruthless world of Victorian commerce. Adam Swann determines to make his fortune and found his own dynasty. His struggle takes him from the dusty plains of India to the teeming slums of 19th-century London, from the chaos of the great industrial cities of the age to the peaceful certainties of the English countryside.
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R. F. Delderfield was born in South London in 1912. On leaving school he joined the Exmouth Chronicle newspaper as a junior reporter, where he went on to become Editor. From there he began to write stage plays and then became a highly successful novelist, renowned for brilliantly portraying slices of English life. With the publication of his first saga, A HORSEMAN RIDING BY, he became one of Britain's most popular authors. Many of his bestselling novels were later adapted for television. He died in 1972.
R.F. Delderfield is a born storyteller Sunday Mirror His narratives belong in a tradition that goes back to John Galsworthy Life Magazine
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