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This is a light novel taking place at a fictive university somewhere in the North of England. We follow James Dixon (Jim) who is struggling as a newly appointed as a university teacher, but whose fate depends too much on the erratic professor Welch. And then there's Margaret, and Christine...
The novel is lighthearted (there's even a finale worthy of any romantic comedy) and moderately funny, but there's a more serious undercurrent of resistance against the old customs and the old boys network, which makes this novel strangely akin to the later film 'The Graduate' (1967). Nevertheless, what strikes the modern reader the most is the alarmingly high amount of smoking in the novel.
The novel is lighthearted (there's even a finale worthy of any romantic comedy) and moderately funny, but there's a more serious undercurrent of resistance against the old customs and the old boys network, which makes this novel strangely akin to the later film 'The Graduate' (1967). Nevertheless, what strikes the modern reader the most is the alarmingly high amount of smoking in the novel.