With Hope, Farewell

With Hope, Farewell was Alexander Baron''s first novel to explore Jewish working class life in fiction, and predated his The Lowlife, being published first in 1952.Mark Strong endures petty anti-Semitism but achieves his wartime ambition to become a fighter pilot. After the war, blighted by injury and a desolation brought on by conflict, Mark and his wife, Ruth, seek to set up home in Hackney. ‘Th...