This performance of T.S. Eliot's works is of exceptional quality. It is a mono recording and the tapes are over 30 years old, but the beauty with which Sir Alec Guinness brings these poems to life is sublime. The first 60 sec of side 1 does sound somewhat extended, as if it had been stretched at some time, but this rapidly fades and the rest of the tapes, 119 mins, play perfectly.
The third novel in Annie Murray's "Birmingham" series. While Genie's father is away fighting in World War II, her mother has a ruinous affair which leaves her pregnant; Genie's little brother leaves, never to return; while Genie herself meets a man who then disappears to war.