Up Union Street and Down Revolutionary Road

Two books I've just finished -- Union Street by Pat Barker and Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates -- made me think afresh about myself, my friends and neighbours. They are worlds apart -- Yates unpicking pompous liberalism in 1950s suburban New England while Barker in her first book explores the raw and poignant working class experience of post-war Britain. These are good texts to have about as we mull over how to reconnect with values and honesty and, less grandly, are just a bloody good read about the sort of people we are.