The Dark Lantern (1951) was the first of Henry Williamson's
fifteen-volume A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight spanning the years
from the late Victorian period to the Second World War. In it we
meet Richard Maddison, a countryman working in London as a City
clerk, struggling to make do on a few shillings a week. He falls
for Hetty Turner, youngest daughter of a prosperous merchant, but
her father rates Richard an unsuitable suitor. 'There is magic in
Henry Williamson's novel . . . which raises it right out of the
family saga class. The magic is of the steam train age of South
London which is so lovingly described.' John Betjeman, Daily
Telegraph 'Williamson's style is romantic, though rarely
sentimental, and his sensuous response to nature is fresh and
surprising.' Anthony Burgess, Ninety-Nine Novels: The Best in
English since 1939
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