![]() Even when I had got out of everything, one cantankerous creditor saw fit to be malignant. In these things there is invariably a certain amount of give and take, and it fell to me finally to do the giving reluctantly enough. Nowadays even about business transactions there is a strong spice of adventure. It is scarcely necessary to go into the details of the speculations that landed me at Lympne, in Kent. (Yes, I’m joking, as is Wells throughout this frequently humorous novel.) His solution to bankruptcy is to retreat to the country to write a play, which would doubtless be instantly successful, as first plays by non-writers usually are. Bedford is a young(ish) businessman who has run into severe financial difficulties. This one, however, was nothing like those ones. Priestley’s Bright Day and similar “ordinary man” novels. ![]() I’ve read a few of his “straight” novels: The History of Mr Polly and Mr Britling Sees It Through, and quite liked them though they were fairly run of the mill, reminding me of J.B. ![]()
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