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A Way Through the Wood
Nigel Balchin
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Description for A Way Through the Wood
Paperback. A psychological study of marriage, loyalty and justice, A WAY THROUGH THE WOOD is a remarkable post-war novel. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
A psychological study of marriage, loyalty and justice, A WAY THROUGH THE WOOD is a remarkable post-war novel. James Manning is perfectly content. He has a successful life as a businessman in the city, a bright young thing of a wife, Jill, and an idyllic home in the countryside, where he is a local magistrate. The only fly in the ointment is the 'Honbill' - the Honourable William Bule, a gentleman with too much time on his hands. When a young man is knocked off his bicycle and subsequently dies, James is sure that Bule is the culprit - after all, he saw a scratch on the Honbill's car the day of the accident and it matches the description to a T. But events take an unexpected turn when James discovers that it was really Jill driving that night, and he is torn between obligations to his wife and to his profound sense of right and wrong. A WAY THROUGH THE WOOD was the inspiration for SEPARATE LIES, a 2005 British film adapted by Academy Award-winning writer Julian Fellowes and starring Tom Wilkinson, Emily Watson and Rupert Everett.
Product Details
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
271g
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781474601207
SKU
V9781474601207
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Ref
99-10
About Nigel Balchin
Nigel Balchin was born in 1908 and graduated in Natural Science from Cambridge University. During the Second World War he worked as a psychologist in the personnel section of the British War Office, before becoming Deputy Scientific Advisor to the Army Council. He wrote numerous books, including How to Run a Bassoon Factory (under the pseudonym Mark Spade), and Darkness Falls from the Air. He died in 1970.
Reviews for A Way Through the Wood
Perhaps the most successful British author to emerge during the war
SATURDAY EVENING POST
One of the best writers, and certainly one of the best stylists, to come out of the war years
Michael Powell He can always be relied on to give us the set-up magnificently
BBC
Mr. Balchin is a writer of such considerable and varied gifts . . . He is certainly one of the most intelligent novelists
TIME AND TIDE
Balchin can tell an exciting story as well as any novelist alive
SUNDAY CHRONICLE
The novelist of men at work
GUARDIAN
A superb storyteller
SUNDAY TIMES
Balchin has done so much to raise the standard of the popular novel
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
Probably no other novelist of Mr. Balchin's value is so eminently and enjoyably readable . . . [He] never lets the reader down
Elizabeth Bowen
TATLER
Balchin has the rare magnetic power that draws the human eye from one sentence to the next
EVENING STANDARD
He tells a story gloriously
DAILY TELEGRAPH
A brilliant novelist . . . A writer of real skill
NEW STATESMAN
A remarkable storyteller
DAILY MAIL
I'd place him up there with Graham Greene
Philippa Gregory Balchin has been absurdly overlooked for too long
Julian Fellowes Balchin writes about timeless things, the places in the heart
Ruth Rendell
SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
[An] inexplicably neglected author
THE TIMES
The missing writer of the Forties . . . Balchin's professional skill gives a meaning to brilliance which the word doesn't usually possess
Clive James
NEW REVIEW
One of the hopes of British novel-writing . . . A writer of genius
John Betjeman
SATURDAY EVENING POST
One of the best writers, and certainly one of the best stylists, to come out of the war years
Michael Powell He can always be relied on to give us the set-up magnificently
BBC
Mr. Balchin is a writer of such considerable and varied gifts . . . He is certainly one of the most intelligent novelists
TIME AND TIDE
Balchin can tell an exciting story as well as any novelist alive
SUNDAY CHRONICLE
The novelist of men at work
GUARDIAN
A superb storyteller
SUNDAY TIMES
Balchin has done so much to raise the standard of the popular novel
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
Probably no other novelist of Mr. Balchin's value is so eminently and enjoyably readable . . . [He] never lets the reader down
Elizabeth Bowen
TATLER
Balchin has the rare magnetic power that draws the human eye from one sentence to the next
EVENING STANDARD
He tells a story gloriously
DAILY TELEGRAPH
A brilliant novelist . . . A writer of real skill
NEW STATESMAN
A remarkable storyteller
DAILY MAIL
I'd place him up there with Graham Greene
Philippa Gregory Balchin has been absurdly overlooked for too long
Julian Fellowes Balchin writes about timeless things, the places in the heart
Ruth Rendell
SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
[An] inexplicably neglected author
THE TIMES
The missing writer of the Forties . . . Balchin's professional skill gives a meaning to brilliance which the word doesn't usually possess
Clive James
NEW REVIEW
One of the hopes of British novel-writing . . . A writer of genius
John Betjeman