'Time Of Hope' is the story of Lewis Eliot's own early life from 1914, when as a boy of nine he learns that his father has gone bankrupt, until 1933, when, though greatly hampered in his London career at the Bar by a neurotic wife, he discovers that separation from her is impossible.
This is the third book published in the Strangers and Brothers 11 book sequence but the first chronologically.
The story tells of the efforts Eliot goes to to become a barrister which are hampered by his love for his eventual wife Sheila who tells him from the beginning that she is incapable of loving anyone but he goes through with the marriage anyway.
This is a 'slice of life' realistic novel of lower middle class England covering a 20 year period.
It is engrossing detailing the miniature of daily lives. This has me hooked and the other 10 novels in the sequence will be read.
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