# Quite A Good Time to be Born

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- Book: [Quite A Good Time to be Born](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-lodge/quite-a-good-time-to-be-born) ([Quite A Good Time to be Born.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-lodge/quite-a-good-time-to-be-born.md))
- Authors: [David Lodge](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-lodge)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-17-8470-053-9
- Pages: 512
- Published: 2016-01-28
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

'I drew my first breath on the 28th of January 1935, which was quite a good time for a future writer to be born in England...’ The only child in a lower-middle-class London family, David Lodge inherited his artistic genes from his musician father and his Catholic faith from his Irish-Belgian mother. Four years old when World War II began, David grew to maturity through decades of great social and cultural change - giving him plenty to write about. Candid, witty and insightful, Quite a Good Time to be Born illuminates a period of transition in British society, and charts the evolution of a writer whose works have become classics in his own lifetime.