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Homecomings (The Strangers and Brothers Novels) Kindle Edition

by C.P. Snow (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.3 out of 5 stars 95 ratings
An emotionally devastated widower is drawn to a married woman in this “impressive” novel set in wartime England (Kirkus Reviews).

Lewis Eliot has lost his deeply troubled wife, Sheila, under tragic circumstances. While her suicide has shaken Lewis to his core, it has also put an end to a painful and difficult marriage. In the wake of Sheila’s passing and Britain entering the Second World War, Lewis plunges into his civil service work. During this time, he meets Margaret and begins to feel his heart stirring—and sees the possibility of healing. But Margaret already has a husband, severely complicating the attraction they both feel, in this series of historical novels that the Telegraph called “Balzacian masterpieces of the age.”

“A master craftsman in fiction.” —The New York Times

“An extremely shrewd observer of men and society.” —Commentary
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  1. Book 6 of 11
    Strangers and Brothers
  2. Print length
    314 pages
  3. Language
    English
  4. Publisher
    Open Road Media
  5. Publication date
    October 15, 2024
  6. File size
    5.3 MB
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0DCP8L38S
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Open Road Media (October 15, 2024)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 15, 2024
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 5.3 MB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 314 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.3 out of 5 stars 95 ratings

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  • Timothy J Hurst
    5.0 out of 5 stars Strangers and Brothers series. Don't start with this one, try 'George Passant'.
    Reviewed in the United States on May 30, 2015
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    If you haven't read any of the Strangers and Brothers series, you shouldn't start with this book, because they're sequential, and not everyone's cup of tea. I suggest you try GEORGE PASSANT first, the first one that C.P.Snow wrote, although chronologically second. You'll know by the end of the second chapter whether it's for you. I really like the series - it follows an Englishman, Lewis Elliot, from his childhood in the 1920s to his old age, looking at various public and private events, set in a universily college, war, civil service, houses of the rich etc. The style is perceptive, gentle, almost flat.
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  • Richard Talbot
    4.0 out of 5 stars Homecomings . C.P.Snow
    Reviewed in the United States on July 1, 2013
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    Number 6 of the 11 in "Strangers and Brothers series - an immensely impressive epic spanning the early to mid 20th century covering the career of the narrator , Lewis Eliott through London legal practice , Cambridge academia and Whitehall . A wonderful social and historical insight of this period with wonderful character development. Addictively readable . One of its greatest achievements is that the novels can be read out of sequence . C.P.Snow writes superbly well from personal experience and is particularly known for his stimulation of the debate with regard to the separation of Science and the Arts - reflected in this series .
    I very much enjoyed " Homecomings " although felt it was a little fragmented in its plot - possibly the result of attempting to bring together various strands of the narrative from previous books. Overall , having reread the 11 volumes sequentially I would unhesitatingly give the series 5 stars .
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  • Minerva
    5.0 out of 5 stars If you like Trollope, you'll love Snow
    Reviewed in the United States on April 21, 2017
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    C.P. Snow is definitely worth going back to. If you like Trollope, you'll love Snow. His combination of high politics, difficult romance, country house weekends, and excellent stage setting (wet leaves, dimmed lights, rain, along the Thames embankment) is irresistible.
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  • C. L Wilson
    3.0 out of 5 stars no title
    Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2006
    I dunno, this series seems to be losing steam, but I can't quite put my finger on it. This one was definitely better than "The New Men", but not nearly as riveting as "Time of Hope", "The Light and the Dark", or "The Masters". I get the feeling that Snow has distanced himself more, is being rather more detached and objective. He had to bring his son near death for him to see into his nature and come to finally understand his core being. Wasn't there some other way? How autobiographical is this series? I would love to know. Still good, however, and definitely worth the read.
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  • Mary E. Sibley
    5.0 out of 5 stars Riven by angst
    Reviewed in the United States on April 29, 2007
    C.P. Snow is something of a latter-day Trollope. The series is quasi-autobiographical. The author's training was as a physicist. Obiviously his twin interests of politics and psychology have been poured into his STRANGERS AND BROTHERS series.

    When this book opens it is 1938 and the narrator, Lewis Eliot, is married to Sheila Knight, a person who cannot love. Sheila knows that Lewis has sacrificed the idea of having children and part of his career for her betterment. Lewis cannot accept that in regard to his marriage to Sheila he has become his own prisoner. He is a legal advisor to Paul Lufkin, a tycoon.

    Sheila is prepared to do a good turn for a sixty year old man, a has-been. She is ready to set him up in publishing. Beautiful and hag-ridden, she has business acumen. Lewis encourages her to support the said Robinson in his plans. Later he learns that Sheila is wrongly rumored to prefer women to her husband. Robinson , it seems, has started the rumor. Additional hurtful gossip is brought to Lewis's attention. Sheila confronts Robinson with spreading slander.

    At a dinner Lewis is asked if he knows Austin Davidson, an art connoisseur and a member of one of the notable academic dynasties. He discovers that his wife writes in secret in the manner of Emily Dickinson and Emily Bronte. She hides her work from him but shows her work to Robinson who gives it praise. Sadly his use of her work is that it serves as an opportunity to spread a yet more hurtful rumor, that she has backed Robinson in order to get published. In her misery, Lewis tries to speak with Sheila of other people's lives also riven with angst. This is to no avail since, in the end, she destroys her creative work.

    Suicide is accomplished when, in the black-out, Lewis is away from home attending yet another formal dinner. Lewis had tensed for signs of strain and had felt resentment at the distraction of Sheila's moods. This blended with the pity and protective love he felt for Sheila.
    In 1941, two years later, Lewis runs into Margaret Davidson. Five years later she becomes his second wife and the mother of his son, Charles.

    Thus, C.P. Snow sets up his characters with problems detailing on man's journey through life in a highly interesting milieu. The point of the exercise is to show the social circumstances from which individuals emerge to play intellectual and emotional roles. The actors engage in jobs in government, academia, law and medicine, and business. Novels in the series continue to seem fresh and pertinent to tasks and events Americans may now confront and/or consider.

    As time passes, the reader appreciates more than ever the cleverness C.P. Snow uses to array his characters with historical and novelist-made attributes, recognizable in hind-sight. For example, Sheila resembles Vivian Eliot, the first wife of the poet. Austin Davidson, the father of Lewis's second wife, Margaret, calls to mind Anthony Blunt, art connoisseur to Her Majesty, the Queen. (This book came out in America in 1956. It was disclosed in the 1990's that Anthony Blunt along with Kim Philby and others had functioned as a Communist spy. He was stripped of his knighthood.)

    Finally, Lewis Eliot, running true to course, works at a ministry during WW II. He has been described by his mentor, George Passant, as a preposterously unselfish friend. Against his better judgment he gives evidence on a friend's behalf, not minding the collateral damage, if any.
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  • Donald
    4.0 out of 5 stars Beautifully written novel of a high ranking Brittish civil servant ...
    Reviewed in the United States on September 14, 2014
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    Beautifully written novel of a high ranking Brittish civil servant before and during WWII. The focus is on his two marriages, one disastrous, the other quite the reverse. The strength of the novel is its indirect and subtle insights into the British attitudes about life and family.
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  • Izzysylph
    4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on May 4, 2015
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    Four star because I liked the Masters better.
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  • GOLDWINGER1500
    5.0 out of 5 stars The Seventh Book in the Series is as compelling as ever
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 7, 2023
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    C P Snow’s characters face the ups and downs of life so realistically. With the backdrop of a group of friends from their younger lives Lewis and Margaret deal with a child, their first together, a serious illness and the worries this brings are brilliantly described by Snow.

    Arguably the darkest of the first seven books in the series.
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  • Graham R. Hill
    4.0 out of 5 stars Range of emotions
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 23, 2011
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    The whole 'Strangers and Brothers' series is about power, mainly the acquisition and usage of it. However, it seems to me at least, this particular volume is more about the loss and lack of power. As the war ends both Elliot's influence and his appetite for it wanes. And in both his first and second marriages he must face up to his ineffectiveness in the face of both mental and physical illness.

    Snow is not a great writer, but he does nicely convey to the reader Elliot's sadness, happiness and much in between.
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  • Michael S
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 25, 2015
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    A fascinating study of an unhappy love affair
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  • Angus Jenkinson
    3.0 out of 5 stars A good book but not the strongest member of this splendid ...
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 14, 2015
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    A good book but not the strongest member of this splendid series, it describes the bitter situation of Elliott's marriage, and how this in due course turns around and he finds domestic happiness. Many of the Strangers and Brothers series echo aspects of Snow's own life and in the novel of affairs in the Cambridge College and corridors of power he speaks from strong personal experience offering a view of life in the British establishment. This adds to it but the psychological drama is not perhaps his forte. The series is excellent however. Begin at the beginning
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  • Maureen Jewess
    3.0 out of 5 stars Three Stars
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 12, 2018
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    Like most of Snow, these days considered a bit long-winded with not much action.
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