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South Riding (1936) was Winifred Holtby ’s last and best known novel and it’s a fascinating depiction of a time and place. Returning to the world of her Yorkshire upbringing, Winifred Holtby created a moving portrait of a rural community struggling with the effects of the depression.
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From the Audible audiobook description: “Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, Winifred Holtby’s greatest novel was published posthumously Winifred Holtby’s masterpiece is a rich evocation of the lives and relationships of the characters of South Riding. Sarah Burton, the fiery young headmistress of the local girls’ school; Mrs Beddows, th...
From the original review by L.P Hartley in The Observer (London, March 1, 1936: “Miss Winifred Holtby’s Last Novel” The title of Miss Holtby’s latest and, unhappily, her last novel suggests à fabulous setting, but as a matter of fact, there is nothing other-worldly in South Riding. Even without the help of the map on the jacket we could identify th...
1938: The first film adaptation1974: Adaptation for Yorkshire Television1999: The radio version was broadcast on BBC Radio 42011: BBC Television Series(three parts)South Riding is a novel by Winifred Holtby, published posthumously in 1936. The book is set in the fictional South Riding of Yorkshire : the inspiration being the East Riding rather than the modern South Yorkshire ; Holtby's mother, Alice, was the first alderwoman on the East Riding County Council . [ 1 ]
Buy South Riding by Winifred Holtby at Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.com. Category: Historical Fiction. Reviewer: Louise Laurie. Summary: A sweeping epic about life in the South Riding just after the atrocities of the First World War.
South Riding has everything you could want from a Masterpiece event: perfect period details, a forlornly gray surf, a swelling soundtrack, disputes over crunchy-gravel real estate, whistling trains and black-tie dinners in hotels, a believable and compelling story involving multiple characters and plots and a faithfulness to its original ...
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South Riding is much more than that though. The lively discussion at book group concluded that South Riding is a funny, poignant and very well observed study of a community on the East Yorkshire coast, during the turbulent inter war years.
South Riding is a character-driven book, and works brilliantly, because the characterization is brilliant. Holtby has the gift of creating fully-formed, memorable characters within just a few pages, characters with all the complexities and foibles of real human beings, and at the same time, people who are easy to sympathize with and like.
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