Reading Group: Riceyman Steps

Riceyman Steps by Arnold Bennett

After decades of neglect, Arnold Bennett is being rediscovered as one of the most consistent and entertaining novelists of his day. Exploring his life-long fascination with money and its uses, Riceyman Steps is an authentic picture of lower middle-class life in 1920s London, combining his skills of evocative scene-setting, clear story-telling and shrewd characterisation to moving and sometimes comic effect.