Lynda Nead is Pevsner Chair of History of Art at Birkbeck, University of London.
"This is a luminous book about the greyness that delayed Britain’s
search for modernity in the postwar era." — Frances Spalding,
The Guardian
"This is an absolutely terrific book." — David Marx, David
Marx: Book Reviews
"acute and wide-ranging analysis" — Mark Jones, Albion
Magazine Online
“[A] closely argued study of culture and society in post-war
Britain” – Ruth Guilding, TLS
“Far from being a dry and dusty tome it fizzes with an energy for
anyone who is interested in the environment around them.”
—Hampshire Chronicle
“Here, the author prowls around corners, inhabits bombsites and
lurks in the fog, uncovering, through her persuasive text and
generous illustrations, a new and nuanced vision of a city that
reveals its character in the obscured, the elided and the
everyday”—Catherine Jolivette, Burlington Magazine
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