Tag: R C Sherriff

• The Fortnight in September – R C Sherriff

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  December 11, 2023

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  Book reviews

  Robert Cedric Sherriff, best known for the play ‘Journey’s End’, published this novel in 1931. It describes a fortnight’s family holiday in Bognor Regis, circa September 1930. Mr Stevens, a clerk, travels by train to the seaside, accompanied by his wife, teenage son and daughter and younger son. They stay with their usual landlady, Mrs…