I Met a Lady

When he was a schoolboy George Ledra watched the recruits of World War I marching through the Manchester streets. His account of his own life; which makes this novel, concludes with the ending of the second war. This is a stretch of time that Howard Spring has often written about-a slice of his own days; and how people fared in the swiftly-changing political and social scene of those three decades fascinates him (and us).