Theirs was the kingdom
By: R.F. Delderfield.
Publisher: Coronet
Published: 1972
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 896
First sentence: TOWARDS noon, when Swann's carters, stablemen and vanboys gathered in the yard and about the sprawl of sheds and warehouses, munching their bread and cheese and spilling shards of pastry from penny pasties bought at the stand lower down lower down Tooley Street, cohorts of London sparrows attended them.
Description: T.W.T.K. is about Adam Swann's numerous family and his ever-expanding network of transport depots, first established in God is An Englishman.  Now they probe as far north as the Scottish Highlands and as far west as the Dublin Pale.
Alex, his eldest son, is a professional soldier.  Another son, George, is a pioneer of motor transport.  An adopted daughter, Deborah, works with the famous journalist-crusader, W.T.Stead, uncovering the terrible injustices among working-glass girls who could be bought and sold like chattels.
Caught in this kaleidoscope are the fads and feuds, the loves and hates of an age when the complacent mould of mid-Victorian England was beginning to crack.
Table of contents: label: Subsection
title: VIEW OF THE RIVER - December 1878
pagenum: 013; label: Subsection
title: ANOTHER VIEW OF THE RIVER, May - December 1889
pagenum: 879