This is the first volume in Powell's mammoth work running to 12 volumes. These were published between 1951 and 1975.
This first volume starts with Jenkins at his public school and his his two friends Stringham and Templer. It runs for four chapters , the school, a holiday, visits to his friends homes and then Jenkins first year at Oxford.
Characters introduced here leave clues to how their lives may develop and intertwine with each other in later volumes.
It is a reflection of the boys life, a chronicle of their time set in the early 1920s
the attitudes, the behaviour and of Britain's place in the world.
Its great to read, it just flows along, very detailed but it is never boring, it just draws you in to a world that no longer exits and never did for the majority of people.
This was brilliant and I am excited about reading the following volumes.
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