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The Kingdom Round the Corner

by Coningsby Dawson

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1921
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On a blustering March morning in 1919, Lord Taborley walks back into London life after five years of war, a man his friends still call Tabs and barely recognise otherwise. Coningsby Dawson follows him as he goes looking for the private happiness soldiers promised themselves in the trenches, the kingdom round the corner that always seems one street away. What Tabs finds is Terry Beddow, the young woman he came home hoping to marry, drawn instead to General Braithwaite, a decorated officer who was once his own valet and body servant. Published in 1921, the novel works the war's social aftershocks through a single household: class lines coming loose, ranks thinned, and the awkward business of loving people the fighting has altered. Dawson, who served with the Canadian artillery, writes the homecoming without sentimentality.

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Coningsby Dawson

Coningsby Dawson was a British-born novelist and poet whose writing moved between lyric reflection, romance, and the social dislocations surrounding the First World War. The Worker appeared in the fuller 1906 collection The Worker and Other Poems, an early book that established poetry as part of his career rather than a sideline to his fiction.

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First published
1921
Reading time
About 7 hours
Pages
262
Language
English
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