Holding On: A Novel - Softcover

Jones, Mervyn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1906011427 ISBN 13: 9781906011420

Publisher: Eland Publishing, 1973

Synopsis

This is the story of a street in London's docklands and of a family who lived in it. The street was built in the 1880s, and the Wheelright family (originally dockers) lived there until its tragic demolition in the 1960s, when it was replaced by tower blocks. As a social document, the book rings with truth, but it is much more than that: it's compelling narrative brings the reader face to face with life in London before, during and after the Second World War: the momentous changes, the growth of opportunity and the loss of community.

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

This saga of three generations of the Wheelwright family of East End London begins at the turn of the century when Dora and Jack Wheelwright move to Steadman Street. They have been married six months and she is nearly nine months pregnant. Soon come children, two world wars, dockyard strikes, unions of love and necessity. The family becomes entangled with Italian immigrants, middle-class people, landed gentry and a Jew. At the end of the novel, Dora and Jack's aging son contemplates the fate of his home and the strangeness of the 1960s. Sadly, Jones makes the Wheelwrights' story as ordinary as real life but much less memorable.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Eland Publishing
• Publication date: 1973
• ISBN 10: 1906011427
• ISBN 13: 9781906011420
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 312