Synopsis
1963. Abridged Edition. 223 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Green and cream cloth. Ex-Library copy, with expected inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Binding remains firm. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light tanning to spine and edges. Staining to both boards.
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Review
One of the hopes of British novel-writing . . . A writer of genius (John Betjeman)
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)
[An] inexplicably neglected author (THE TIMES)
Balchin writes about timeless things, the places in the heart (Ruth Rendell SUNDAY TELEGRAPH)
A little masterpiece like Nigel Balchin's The Small Back Room speaks to our own time, but with so much literary experience behind it (Shirley Hazzard)
Balchin has been absurdly overlooked for too long (Julian Fellowes)
I'd place him up there with Graham Greene (Philippa Gregory)
A remarkable storyteller (DAILY MAIL)
A brilliant novelist . . . A writer of real skill (NEW STATESMAN)
He tells a story gloriously (DAILY TELEGRAPH)
Balchin has the rare magnetic power that draws the human eye from one sentence to the next (EVENING STANDARD)
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 done so much to raise the standard of the popular novel (TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT)
A superb storyteller (SUNDAY TIMES)
Balchin can tell an exciting story as well as any novelist alive (SUNDAY CHRONICLE)
The novelist of men at work (GUARDIAN)
He can always be relied on to give us the set-up magnificently (BBC)
One of the best writers, and certainly one of the best stylists, to come out of the war years (Michael Powell)
Perhaps the most successful British author to emerge during the war (SATURDAY EVENING POST)
Book Description
A true modern classic, THE SMALL BACK ROOM is a towering novel of the Second World War.
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