Summary of Loving
The novel “Loving” depicts “life below the stairs” in Kinalty Castle, a fictional Irish country house, during the early 1940s. The novel describes the relationships, love affairs, gossip, and feuds among the household staff, while the Second World War looms at the background. The estate’s owners and most of its servants are British and view the local Irish population with deep mistrust. They struggle with the question whether to remain comfortably in neutral Ireland or return home to their families and face the war.
Reasons to read Loving
“Loving” is a moving story about the relationships between people living and working in an Anglo-Irish country house, where the Second World War quietly affects their everyday lives. English author Henry Green is best known for his novels “Loving”, “Living”, and “Party Going”. In 2005, “Loving” was included in TIME Magazine’s list of 100 best English-language novels published since 1923.
Setting: Kinalty Castle, a fictional castle in Ireland
Original title: Loving
Year of publication: 1945
Nr of pages: 224
