Room at the top, a novel

Description:

This is the story of an ambitious young man from a working class background determined to make it to the top in post WW2 England. With ruthless determination he succeeds in marrying the only daughter of a wealthy businessman but only at the expense of his older lover and of his conscience. One of the first novels to tackle the class divisions in post-war Britain in a realistic setting it reflects the anger and bitterness felt by many servicemen returning to civilian life at that time.

subjects: Fiction,  Working class,  England, fiction,  Fiction, general,  English fiction,  Class divisions,  Social-climbing,  Ambition,  Bolivian fiction,  Detective and mystery stories,  Travailleurs,  Romans, nouvelles

Places: England,  Northern England

Times: 1950's,  Post world war two