All her seven novels take place here, and it’s closely based on Clifton, in Bristol, where she spent the early years of her adult life. The setting for the novel is a rather shabby but still beautiful Georgian square in an area Young calls Upper Radstowe. It was her last novel, published in 1947 when she was sixty, but set in the summer of 1939. I’ve read several of her novels since then and all are brilliant, but this one stayed in my mind as particularly good. I read this in 2010, spurred on by a reading in a book club of EH Young’s earlier novel Miss Mole. When the British Library announced the first three titles in their new Women Writers series, I was delighted see that one of them was Chatterton Square.
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