All The Day Long
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Set against the sweeping backdrop of Cornwall and Ireland across several turbulent decades, All the Day Long chronicles the life of Maria Leigh, a woman whose quiet beginnings in a Cornish vicarage give way to a rich, restless journey through love, loss, and the seismic upheavals of the early twentieth century. Howard Spring, the Welsh-born novelist celebrated for his richly textured sagas, constructs a world of intimate human drama set against the grand forces of history — the Irish struggle for independence, two world wars, and the slow dissolution of a certain kind of English certainty — all rendered with the warmth and moral seriousness that defined his finest work. Spring's prose carries the unhurried authority of a natural storyteller, weaving domestic tenderness with a keen awareness of the wider world's cruelties, and his characterisation of Maria stands as one of his most enduring achievements. Rich in atmosphere and emotional intelligence, All the Day Long asks what it means to endure — and whether a life fully lived can ever truly be called ordinary. For readers who savour the grand tradition of the English family saga, this novel presents an irresistible question: how much of a life is shaped by choice, and how much by the relentless passage of time itself?
Author: Howard Spring
Format: Hardback
Published: 1959, Collins
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Set against the sweeping backdrop of Cornwall and Ireland across several turbulent decades, All the Day Long chronicles the life of Maria Leigh, a woman whose quiet beginnings in a Cornish vicarage give way to a rich, restless journey through love, loss, and the seismic upheavals of the early twentieth century. Howard Spring, the Welsh-born novelist celebrated for his richly textured sagas, constructs a world of intimate human drama set against the grand forces of history — the Irish struggle for independence, two world wars, and the slow dissolution of a certain kind of English certainty — all rendered with the warmth and moral seriousness that defined his finest work. Spring's prose carries the unhurried authority of a natural storyteller, weaving domestic tenderness with a keen awareness of the wider world's cruelties, and his characterisation of Maria stands as one of his most enduring achievements. Rich in atmosphere and emotional intelligence, All the Day Long asks what it means to endure — and whether a life fully lived can ever truly be called ordinary. For readers who savour the grand tradition of the English family saga, this novel presents an irresistible question: how much of a life is shaped by choice, and how much by the relentless passage of time itself?