Weatherley Parade

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1930s
A01=Richmal Crompton
Author_Richmal Crompton
British
Category=FBC
childhood
children
classic
coming of age
English
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family life
friendship
interwar
marriage
middlebrow
period fiction
period piece
saga
siblings
social life
twentieth century
women
world war one
world war two

Product details

  • ISBN 9781509859511
  • Weight: 295g
  • Dimensions: 133 x 203mm
  • Publication Date: 20 Apr 2017
  • Publisher: Pan Macmillan
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Weatherley Parade is the compelling saga of the lives and loves of the Weatherley family, spanning the years 1902 to 1940.

The story begins with Arthur Weatherley returning – tired and broken – from the Boer War to his wife and three children, and closes with his grandchildren facing the Battle of Britain. In the years between are births and death, public triumphs and private tragedies, all wrought against a backdrop of British history.

As the Weatherley’s lives are marked by infidelity, alcoholism, and scandal, Edwardian England fades into the First World War and the young men and women – damaged by war and caught in the wake of a rapidly changing society – strive for a future in the shadow of the rise of Nazi Germany . . .

A sumptuous, multi-generational saga and immaculately rendered period piece, Weatherley Parade’s sprawling cast of children and eccentrics is full of all the charm and character of Just William.

Richmal Crompton (1890-1969) is best known for her thirty-eight children’s books featuring William Brown, which were published between 1922 and 1970. Born in Lancashire, Crompton won a scholarship to Royal Holloway in London, where she trained as a schoolteacher, graduating in 1914, before turning to writing full-time in 1923. Alongside the William stories, Crompton wrote forty-one novels for adults, including Family Roundabout, Portrait of a Family, and The Holiday, as well as nine collections of short stories.