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Tory Heaven, or
Thunder on the Right
by Marghanita Laski
(Persephone Books, £13)
TORY Heaven was first published in 1948 and, as David Kynaston points out in the introduction, just like 2018, that year was a worrying time for the middle classes of this country.
It's something that Marghanita Laski picks up on this insightful and comedic novel in which it is the Tories, not Labour, who win the general election in 1945 and proceed to recreate a class system with all the trappings of the 18th century.
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