Extremely Well Written

From "The Sparsholt Affair" by Alan Hollinghurst (this particular paragraph is set in 1974, when there were blackouts as part of the three-day week):

"All these weeks, the old stove in the workshop was kept drowsily going, with its small scratchy whispers, now and then, of combustion and collapse, and when the power went off it was Johnny’s job to open the air vent, rattle out the cinders, hook up the cast-iron disc of the lid and slide in another helping of coke from the hod. Cyril lit the...