Book description
A group of rich, spoiled and idle young people heading off on a winter
holiday are stranded at a railway station when their train is delayed by
thick, enclosing fog. PARTY GOING describes their four-hour wait in a
London railway hotel where they shelter from the grim weather and the
throngs of workers on the platform below. Henry Green was the pen name
of Henry Vincent Yorke. Born in 1905 near Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire,
England, he was educated at Eton and Oxford and went on to become
managing director of an engineering business, writing novels in his
spare time. His first novel,
Blindness
(1926) was written whilst he was still at school and published whilst he
was at Oxford. He married in 1929 and had one son, and during the Second
World War served in the London Fire Brigade. Between 1926 and 1952 he
wrote nine novels, Blindness
, Living
, Party Going
, Caught,
Loving,
Back
, Concluding,
Nothing
and Doting
, and a memoir, Pack My Bag
. Henry Green died in December 1973.
