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A different world and time
Hilton creates for us the world he knew or wanted to know and populated it with characters that sometimes begger discription. George, Livia, Charles, Channing, Whiteside -- you'll get to know them all. The story is set in a northern England town between WWI and II. Hilton slowly reveals aspects of personalities intertwined over a lifetime of hopes and dreams that sometime crash against harsh realities. Stories are set within stories adding new layers of information from different perspectives.

This may not be where you want to start reading Hilton, but it is a marvelous book. BTW, in 1947 it was made into a film starring John Mills and Trevor Howard. I enjoyed reading it, you may too.

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Not my favorite Hilton novel, but good
This is a fine novel, but one of my least favorite of Hilton's books (my favorite is Random Harvest). I did not find some sections of So Well Remembered engaging, and it wasn't until half way through the book that I really cared how the story would end. And the end was very ambiguous, he could easily have continued the book for a few more chapters.

Despite all that, I still found it a worth-while read. His characters, as usual, were great and that is why Hilton is one of my favorite authors. Just don't make this the first Hilton novel you read.