Hilton tells the story of George Boswell, a good man whose life's work is to improve the living conditions of the working people in the small industrial town of Browdley. The story begins on September first, 1921, the day after the official end of WWI, at a ceremony to lay the foundation stone of a housing development that will replace some of the town's worst slums.

Hilton is writing in 1945, and his concern is with the future of Britain. George stands for public action, progress and concern for one's fellow man. His wife, Livia, stands for the opposite. Other two-dimensional characters appear, as needed, to make philosophical and political points.

So Well Remembered is didactic and a little tedious, but I kept reading because I was interested in Hilton's ideas about Britain: what he thought had gone wrong, and what needed to be done. ( )