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I recently finished South Riding by Winifred Holtby, which I thought was brilliant and should be better known than it is.
She died young before it was published in 1935, but it's a great state of the nation novel which deals with the way society is starting to change in the first half of the twentieth century. It reminded me of Middlemarch in its scope, as it follows a massive cast of characters from all social backgrounds. Definitely one to recommend.
I'm now reading A Moment of War by Laurie Lee, which I'm not currently enjoying as much as the others in the trilogy, and it's even more disturbing that he still gets in his customary references to sleeping with underage girls and boys when he's supposed to be fighting fascists.