Room at the Top (novel) death and his successful scheme to marry upwards. He is reassured that nobody blames him for Alice's death – but he knows this is wrong, and the book closes with him aware of his conscience, forced to live with his guilt and his responsibility for what has happened. Room at the Top (novel) Room at the Top is a novel by John Braine, first published in the United Kingdom by Eyre & Spottiswoode in 1957, about the rise of an ambitious young man of humble origin, and the socio-economic struggles undergone in realising his social ambitions in post-war Britain. A
Neil Griffiths (novelist) Neil Griffiths (novelist) Neil Griffiths is a British novelist, and the founder of the Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses. He is the winner of the Authors' Club First Novel Award, and has been shortlisted for best novel in the Costa Book Awards. Neil Griffiths was born in south London, and grew up in "various places in the South East of England". Griffiths has worked in television, and has written for BBC Radio 4. His first novel, "Betrayal in Naples", won the Authors' Club First Novel Award, and "Saving Caravaggio" was shortlisted for the best novel in the Costa