Synopsis
The life of Lewis Eliot – documented across eleven novels with C. P. Snow’s distinctive blend of precision and compassion – begins in Time of Hope.
The novel opens in the summer of 1914 when nine-year-old Lewis hears the news of his father’s bankruptcy, and closes in 1933, when, although hindered in his promising career as a lawyer by the neuroses...
Details
22 February 2018304 pages
9781509864157Imprint: Bello
Reviews
Mr Snow has established himself, on his own chosen ground, in an eminent and conspicuous position among contemporary English novelistsNew Statesman
He has the solid worth of Trollope and Bennett at their bestArthur Calder-Marshall, Reynold's News
Together, the sequence presents a vivid portrait of British academic, political and public life. Snow was that rare thing, a scientist and novelist.Jeffrey Archer, Guardian
Balzacian masterpieces of the agePhilip Hensher, Telegraph
