Priestley achieved fame and fortune with his first novel and yet our current school curriculum positions him firmly as a dramatist. The Good Companions is a joyous and engaging picaresque novel and its success enabled Priestley to turn to writing plays. His texts are both expertly crafted and thought-provoking. He views the family as a microcosm of the world and explores the controlling factor of ‘time’. Eden End (set in 1912 but first performed in 1934) has a layered Chekhovian quality in the elusive search for happiness by characters who are innocently unaware of the imminence of war.

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