Blackout In Gretley
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Tanning and foxing
In the shadowy wartime landscape of a grimy English industrial town, J. B. Priestley's Blackout in Gretley thrusts its protagonist — a British intelligence operative working undercover — into a treacherous web of Nazi espionage and civilian suspicion. Set against the tense, suffocating atmosphere of a blacked-out Britain in the early 1940s, the novel chronicles a lone agent's race to unmask a dangerous Fifth Column network embedded within the seemingly ordinary community of Gretley, where trust is a luxury no one can afford. Priestley, celebrated for his acute social observation and vigorous moral voice, crafts a narrative that is equal parts spy thriller and wartime social document, illuminating the paranoia, solidarity, and quiet heroism that defined the British home front. Written and published during the actual conflict in 1942, the novel carries an urgency and authenticity that no amount of retrospective fiction can replicate — leaving the reader to wonder, until the very last page, who in Gretley can truly be trusted.
Author: J. B. Priestley
Format: Hardback
Genre: WW2
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Tanning and foxing
In the shadowy wartime landscape of a grimy English industrial town, J. B. Priestley's Blackout in Gretley thrusts its protagonist — a British intelligence operative working undercover — into a treacherous web of Nazi espionage and civilian suspicion. Set against the tense, suffocating atmosphere of a blacked-out Britain in the early 1940s, the novel chronicles a lone agent's race to unmask a dangerous Fifth Column network embedded within the seemingly ordinary community of Gretley, where trust is a luxury no one can afford. Priestley, celebrated for his acute social observation and vigorous moral voice, crafts a narrative that is equal parts spy thriller and wartime social document, illuminating the paranoia, solidarity, and quiet heroism that defined the British home front. Written and published during the actual conflict in 1942, the novel carries an urgency and authenticity that no amount of retrospective fiction can replicate — leaving the reader to wonder, until the very last page, who in Gretley can truly be trusted.