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Book SynopsisAngel Pavement is one of the great London novels. First published in 1930, it is a social panorama of the city of London seen largely through the eyes of the employees of the firm Twigg & Dersingham, on the first floor of No. 8, Angel Pavement (a small cul-de-sac in the heart of London's commercial district). Angel Pavement provides readers with a vivid picture of ordinary London life before the war and the blitz changed everything dramatically and is set against the background of the great depression. The story centres on the arrival of a mysterious Mr. Golspie from the Baltic region. Business at the firm has been struggling but Mr. Golspie looks set to change its fortunes. His arrival turns life upside down for everyone connected with the firm, but all is not what it seems with Mr. Golspie...
Trade Review"A novel by a man who thoroughly enjoys the whole spectacle of life and can communicate his enjoyment." The Daily Telegraph; "This is a superb example of his ability. It is packed with life and death and real people and colour and smells and the sounds of music and the tastes of food and drink." The Observer; "The whole fabric of the few lives, are opened up to us with a warm and generous assiduity that is entirely convincing... magnificent." The Times; "A lost classic from the teeming world of Depression-era London." DJ Taylor
