![]() Miss Trant is an upper-middle-class spinster and Jollifant is a teacher at a down-at-heel private school. Intertwined with the story of Oakroyd's travels are those of Elizabeth Trant and Inigo Jollifant, two similarly malcontented individuals. (Throughout the novel Priestley uses dialect for all non- RP speakers of English.) He heads south down the Great North Road. He opts to leave his family and seek adventure "on t'road". The novel is written in picaresque style and opens with the middle-aged, discontented Jess Oakroyd in the fictional Yorkshire town of Bruddersford. It won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was adapted twice into film. It is Priestley's most famous novel and established him as a national figure. ![]() Written in 1929, it follows the fortunes of a concert party on a tour of England. ![]() The Good Companions is a novel by the English author J. ![]()
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