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The Fortnight In September (1931)

by R.C. Sherriff(Favorite Author)

4.16 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1903155576 (ISBN13: 9781903155578)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Persephone Books

review 1: I really loved this book, and when I first started it I wasn't sure that I would, despite rave reviews from some of my friends. It is a seemingly very simple book, about one family taking their annual seaside holiday, and I was afraid that its very simplicity would make it dull. But the story grows and grows on you as you read, and somehow Sherriff manages to devote enough time to each character so that you begin to care about them very much, and wonder what will happen to them on the next day of their holiday. And things do happen to them, in the way that things really do happen to people on holiday most of the time--not huge startling changes, but small events and experiences that still leave their mark.Sherriff also manages to convey the feeling of being on holiday so w... moreell--the start of it, with everything still to come, the way the days go by faster and faster, until the end is upon you before you know it. He writes in the introduction that he didn't know what would happen to the characters next when he stopped writing for the day, just as they wouldn't know exactly what would happen on the next day of their holiday, and this comes through very clearly in the book.
review 2: This is a delightful novel first published in 1931 - about the Stevens annual fortnights holiday in Bognor. Mr Stevens is a middle aged clerk - his wife a quiet gentle woman who secretly finds this holiday a bit of a strain. Their children, Dick and Mary who are now grown up, and out to work themselves, and Ernie their youngest still a school boy. This is a novel about ordinary people who live small lives, and the things which loom large and have unimaginable importance within that life - such as Mrs Stevens medicinal bottle of port she buys each year on the holiday, and the wearing of comfortable holiday clothes and canvas shoes. This is a charming novel, quite melancholic in some ways - although never sad. less

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