Volume 1 of To Serve Them All My Days has been another popular success from the writer R.F. Delderfield, whose novels also include the trilogies A Horseman Riding By and the Swann Saga (God is an Englishman, Theirs Was the Day and Give Us This Day), Diana and Come Home.
Delderfield's work belongs to the genre of the Chronicle/historical saga, focusing on the experience of (frequently lower) middle class 'ordinary folk, and the charting of their experiences this century. He is, effectively, a popular chronicler, concerned to articulate 'ordinary experience', and relying also on the reader's own willingness to share in his concepts of popular memory of the recent historical past.
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