Sorrell and Son (Annotated)

Warwick Deeping's Sorrell and Son is a moving postwar novel of paternal devotion, endurance, and social aspiration. Its narrative follows Stephen Sorrell, a demobilized officer abandoned by his wife, as he accepts humiliating hotel work to educate and protect his son, Kit. Written in a lucid, emotionally charged realist style, the book belongs to the interwar tradition of popular English fiction, ...