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Angel Pavement

Description : Angel Pavementby J B PriestleyIntroduced by John Sutherland Additional contentA First Word by Tom PriestleyPriestley and the

Critics A Well Worn Path by Lee HansonTucked away in the City of London lies a dingy almost forgotten side street known as Angel Pavement Here can be found the headquarters of Twiggand amp Dersingham suppliers of veneers and inlays to the cabinet making trade Business is bad and getting worse The firm is fighting for its life and its staff are gripped by the fear of insolvency and redundancy Into their midst descends the mysterious and charming Mr Golspie and his beautiful daughter Lena Together they set in train a sequence of events that will transform the lives of everyone who works there Shot through with Priestleys trademark social conscience Angel Pavement is one of the great London novels a vivid evocation of the s metropolis in an age of recession It is also a brilliant and startlingly relevant examination of what happens to a group of workers when the destructive force of a rapacious financial predator is unleashed among themTheres a part of London no one can take from me because I invented itJ B Priestley The whole fabric of the few lives are opened up to us with a warm and generous assiduity that is entirely convincingMagnificentThe Times A novel by a man who thoroughly enjoys the whole spectacle of life and can communicate his enjoymentThe Daily Telegraph A marvellous writerDavid Hockney A lost classic from the teeming world of Depression era London DJ Taylorwwwgreatnorthernbookscouk