Other Delderfield Novels

My favourite Delderfield Novels are the Avenue Books and To Serve them all my Days. Delderfield also wrote a trilogy set in Victorian England, about the Swann family.. Adam Swann a professional soldier, returns to England and decides to give up the army and set up a business, a transport firm, carrying goods where the railways do not go. He has several children, who take up various professions. His son George wants to motorise the fleet, and is involved in that. His son Giles is a reformer and works as a welfare officer in the company. However the books are rather more sexist than some of his other works and the women are often bullied by their menfolk. Diana is a novel set in the 1920s and 30s, about a young socialite who falls in love with John Leigh, who is from a poor family. She gets into SOE during World War Two, and marries John after her first husband, a fascist, is killed.