num_pages: 618
description: Probably the most popular of Priestley's novels, The Good Companions was an instant best-seller when it was first published in July 1929, and, while JBP came to feel its success subsequently overshadowed many more important works, the book has remained popular. It was his third novel and it is certainly well-written and very readable. It is, too, an enjoyable romp, all about a stranded theatrical group the Dinky Doos rescued by Miss Trant and coverted into the Good Companions, and involving their adventures with such characters as Jess Oakroyd, the middle-aged joiner from Bruddersford, who breaks free from his miserable domestic existence, Susie Dean and Inigo Jollifant.
language: English
title: The Good Companions
titlecomplete: The Good Companions
characters: Mr Poppleby, Elizabeth Trant, Lady Partlit, Jimmy Nunn, Inigo Jollifant, Elsie Longstaff, Jess Oakroyd, Mr Mord, Morton Mitcham
genres: Fiction, 20th Century, Plays, Classics, British Literature, Classic Literature, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 705
awards: awardedAt: -1293811200000
name: James Tait Black Memorial Prize
category: Fiction
publisher: Penguin Books