Mary Cavanagh - Novelist

An Inspector Calls by J.B.Priestly



I was alerted to read this after a piece on Stuck-In-A-Book that talked about never forgotten who-dunnits and plots. I had only ever heard this on the radio as a play, and had always remembered its slowly built up revelations. I didn't realise that it had never been a novel, and was only produced as a stage script, but nonetheless I really enjoyed it in this medium, and it all came to life brilliantly. A perfect time-piece of middle class social attitudes of the pre-1914-18 period, that also fascinates with the clever characterisation of The Inspector. Was he real or was he the conscience of the cast? Utterly brilliant and worth 10/10 stars