The Open Door Issa Makhlouf

The Open Door Issa MakhloufWith an introduction by Alan Sillitoe's widow, the poet Ruth Fainlight. The Open Door follows Saturday Night and Sunday Morning as the final volume in the Seaton series. Returning on a troopship from Malaya in 1949, Brian Seaton (Arthur's brother) comes back to a Nottingham world of rationing, the black market, a wife he no longer loves and a child who does not recognise him. He is full of life and lust, but he has tuberculosis, forcing a long stay in

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