Books Do Furnish a Room

Ten books into Powell's 12 novel Dance to the Music of Time cycle and the quality has not slipped. This novel sequence isn't talked about much (compared to Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, or even Song of Ice and Fire) but it is a great accomplishment and deserves status as possibly the greatest novel sequence in English. Subtle, light in tone and incredibly insightful psychologically, it is an extraordinary document of life in Britain in the fifty years 1921-1951, encompassing the literary and music worlds, politics, war and romance and much else. Highly recommended.