'He is, as Proust was before him, the great chronicler of his culture in his time.' Guardian

'One of the fictional landmarks of our time.' Times Literary Supplement

'A joyous experience.' Roddy Doyle

'A Dance to the Music of Time' is universally acknowledged as one of the great works of English literature. Now in the first volume's 75th anniversary year, this twelve-volume series is ready to delight and entrance a new generation of readers.

In this second volume, Nick Jenkins is struggling to establish himself in London after graduating from Oxford. He finds his old friends are moving on - Stringham takes the leap into marriage, Templer heads into the world of business and Widmerpool, confident as-ever of his own importance, begins a career in law.

Determined not to be left behind, Nick starts to make new acquaintances and throws himself into society life. Yet, in this new world of glamorous debutante balls and leisurely country visits, Nick faces his first encounter with the pleasures and pain of love.

Praise for 'A Dance to the Music of Time'
'A world as rich as Joyce's on the one hand and P. G. Wodehouse's on the other.' Guardian
'One of the great novel-sequences in English Literature.' William Boyd
'One of the greatest pleasures of my reading life.' Michael Palin
'An epic, elegant masterpiece.' Lauren Groff
'A joyous experience.' Roddy Doyle
'An intricately wrought work of art.' John Banville
'The finest long comic novel that England has produced.' Anthony Burgess
'Mr Powell's imagination is inexhaustible.' Evelyn Waugh
'One of English fiction's few twentieth-century masterpieces.' London Review of Books
'There is no other novelist whose work gives so much or such consistent pleasure.' Times Literary Supplement