Set during the General Strike, this powerful novel centres upon the hopes and aspirations of the Fury family who have struggled all their lives against tremendous social and financial pressures. Fanny Fury, a kindly but possessive woman, has pinned all her hopes on her youngest son, Peter, who is...
It was a long finger, thin, covered with a film of reddish hair. His face was so near to it that when he breathed one could see the slight wavering of the hairs on it. The nail was thick, long, and had two white spots on it. The finger traced a line down the paper and then stopped. &n...
He’ll watch them burn, and watch me. Darkness will come and the candle will burn out. And after that a silence will be inexcusable. He is just waiting. I’ll go up to my room, and something in him will drag after me. Later he’ll tell me that he loves me. They all do. As though it were a plan, the ...
Talon clung to a client. She hated to see them go, and when she heard the footsteps on the stairs she came out of her pokey little office, blinking in the harsh light of the passage. She crawled after the man who now stood in the doorway. She repeated the formula. “And at any time—if you or your ...
For half an hour he had been looking out, and through it had come the dull, monotonous roar of distant breakers, it made him think of some kind of animal prowling upon night and air. The darkened room was slowly unburdening itself, the piled up heat of the day rising from corners, out of the cupb...
Fury of her son. Nobody has said anything to you—nor interfered. I haven’t. Why do you object?’ She stood facing Peter. It seemed that for the first time they were really alone together. ‘It’s just that I don’t understand,’ said Peter. ‘I know I went up there last time. And I don’t mind going aga...