This Above All (Masterplots: Revised Category Edition, British Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Eric Knight
- First Published: 1941
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Sentimental romance
- Time of Work: Summer, 1940
- Setting: England
- Principal Characters: Clive Briggs, Prue Cathaway, Monty, Dr. Cathaway
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: Values, Self-discovery, Love or romance, 1940’s, World War II, England or English people, Soldiers, Bombs
- Locales: England
The Story:
Clive Briggs was home on rest leave after the disaster of Dunkirk. He went first to Leaford and then to Gosley, both resort towns on the coast of England. At a band concert in Gosley, he met Prudence Cathaway, who was stationed nearby with the women’s army corps. Prue was of an upper middle-class family and Clive was from the slums, but they were attracted to each other and became lovers the second time they were together.
Prue told him of her family. Her grandfather had been a general in the last war and felt unwanted and useless in this one; her father...
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