Bennett is master of the study of miniscule, and this is no exception. An intense, shocking study of a year in the lives of Mr Earlsforward, a bookseller in Clerkenwell, and the woman he marries in middle age, Mrs Arb, and their devoted charwoman, Elsie. Earlsforward is obsessively economical in life - with money, with words, with affection and certainly with commen sense. And his obsessions have a profound, shocking, and ultimately fatal, impact on those
over whom he is master, sometimes - his wife and his "general". If you like Bennett, you'll love this.
over whom he is master, sometimes - his wife and his "general". If you like Bennett, you'll love this.