description: George Bowling, the hero of this comic novel, is a middle-aged insurance salesman who lives in an average English suburban row house with a wife and two children. One day, after winning some money from a bet, he goes back to the village where he grew up, to fish for carp in a pool he remembers from thirty years before. The pool, alas, is gone, the village has changed beyond recognition, and the principal event of his holiday is an accidental bombing by the RAF.
title: Coming Up for Air
titlecomplete: Coming Up for Air
characters: Joe Bowling, Elsie Waters, Porteus, Hilda Bowling, George Bowling, George Bowling, Hilda Bowling, Joe Bowling, Porteus, Elsie Waters
genres: Classics, British Literature, English Literature, Modern Classics, Novels, Historical Fiction, Literature, 20th Century, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 17156
places: Charing Cross, London, England, London, England