Hard Facts

8vo 283pp. from rear cover: "Woven of many bright strands, this new novel by Howard Spring has the nostalgia and warmth that endeared him to so many readers as the author of My Son, My Son! Its hero is a young clergyman in England of the 'Eighties; but the story of his contradictory loves is closely interwoven with the fates of several other characters Among them are an impassioned young poet and his sister, and the founder of the first penny newspaper--called in this novel "Hard Facts"--in whose fabulous career all thtese lives were closely involved." #03164. Book VG: mild shelf wear to boards and spine, mild toning/offset to endpapers, text clean, binding tight. DJ VG-: age toning and edge wear, chipping to rear panel.