This book is a modern classic and required reading. It’s a semi autobiographical novel from one of Britain’s great writers. If you’re going to Britain read this before your trip and visit some of the places in the industrial north. 7 pages in the book have brackets or a little underlining. It’s minimal. See pictures. A few pages toward the end have page folds. Whoever read it before me did it. The binding is tight and from a non smoking home.