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From the dust jacket:
The open road reaching away to anywhere, and the courage to break away from convention and over the horizon toward any adventure chance might provide–these are the joys of which Francis Brett Young sings in this new novel.
They were joys which Owen Lucton did not discover until he was fifty. As the head of a large accounting firm he had been drawing up balance sheets for clients through many years. One day when he paused to cast up accounts for his own life, he found the balance not too satisfactory. He had money, but the more he made the more he had to spend and with steadily decreasing spiritual reward. He had a wife, but she seemed steadily less concerned with Owen's happiness and more with social success. He had children, but their main interest in their father seemed to be with getting as much money out of him as possible and at the same time with shelving him in his home and in his business.
And so Owen rebelled. He bought that high-powered car he had long wanted for himself alone, and he sought the countryside.
In the course of his journey he lost his car, and he nearly lost his liberty. But his gains were immeasurable. Through the rapid series of adventures which swarmed along the road, he achieved a whole new attitude toward people and toward himself. His spiritual stature grew spontaneously with the folk young and old with whom his life became entangled–kinds of folk whose existence his stuffy office walls had never permitted him even to suspect.
And he saw England itself with new eyes–the English countryside which Mr. Young knows and describes so beautifully, its inns, its roadsides, its villages and its woods and fields. Not only these, but the human problems of its people and reflections of all these in chance memories of their literature as Owen recalls them in his travels. This is Francis Brett Young in a new mood, but a warm and mellow and refreshing one.
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