Osbert Sitwell

Before the Bombardment

Novel set in coastal town of Scarborough during First World War bombing

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Osbert Sitwell
Osbert Sitwell

Sitwell was a satirical novelist and memoirist whose Left Hand, Right Hand! autobiography is one of the finest memoirs of English aristocratic life in the twentieth century. His novel Before the Bombardment is a sharp social comedy.

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