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
Andrew Martin (novelist) Andrew Martin (novelist) Andrew Martin (born 6 July 1962) is an English novelist and journalist. Martin was brought up in Yorkshire, studied at Merton College, Oxford and qualified as a barrister. He has since worked as a freelance journalist for a number of publications while writing novels, starting with "Bilton", a comic novel about journalists, and "The Bobby Dazzlers", a comic novel set in the North of England, for which he was named "Spectator" Young Writer of the Year. "The Guardian" claimed "Bilton" and "The Bobby Dazzlers" "rank high in the lists of the best comic novels published in the