The Houses In Between by Howard Spring

The Houses In Between

by Howard Spring

The Reprint Society, 1954, hardcover, dust-jacket

Very Good Condition, some edge and shelf wear, some rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, previous owners inscription on front fly-leaf, dust-jacket reinforced with with tape on the reverse, some rubbing, bumping, chips and small tears to edges and corners (see photographs)

"The Houses In Between is ostensibly an autobiography covering a ling period - an informal chronicle of events, national and personal, as they affected the lives of a large number of people.  In this case the narrator is an old lady who can look back over nearly a century.  Her earliest recollection was of a visit to the Crystal Palace at the time of the Great Exhibition in Hyde park.  She lived to celebrate her ninety-ninth birthday.  'She was spry enough then.'
As the central figure of this long and eventful novel, the old lady could not be bettered.  It is, in every sense, a family novel."