Clayhanger

Complete and unabridged, with 54 full-page plates by Edvard Munch, Ralph Hedley and Stanhope Forbes. A printer's son in the Potteries wants to be an architect, and his father wants him in the shop; between them stand a woman with a secret and thirty years of the Five Towns. Bennett opened the trilogy in 1910 with the industrial town he grew up in, drawn without either sentiment or apology. The sce...