Warwick Deeping - The Man Who Went Back, etc.

[Bick]

Warwick Deeping was a best selling British novelist from the 1900's through to his death in 1950. It's come to my attention that he wrote a SF book, titled The Man Who Went Back, which tells the story of a man who gets transported back to Roman-era Britain after a car crash in 1939. Anyway, he seems to be one of those extremely successful authors almost everyone has forgotten, which interests me.

His wikipedia page: Warwick Deeping - Wikipedia

So my question - has anyone read this book, and if so, what do you think? And has anyone read anything else by Deeping? I'm thinking that much of his work may have been a little like Walpole, but I don't really know and I'm interested in discovering what some of his work was like.

 

[Danny McG]

A long time ago (in this here galaxy) I read a book by him about some bloke who fell out with his son's because they wouldn't fight in WW1.
Later he's running a shop and his grandson turns up. I think he doesn't know at first.

This was read out of desperation while I was laid up in hospital and it was a choice of that or some battered Reader's Digests.
It wasn't an engrossing or memorable book, his name stuck in my mind as an 'avoid this author'

 

[Bick]

Thanks for the feedback Danny - not a very positive endorsement, but that may save me time and money

Of course his time travel novel may be better, who knows?