Name: An Inspector Calls
Rating: 3.714285714285714 (91 reviews)
ISBN: 9783150092187

John B. Priestley

A Play in Three Acts

An Inspector Calls

John Boynton Priestley

Arthur Birling, a prosperous manufacturer in the early years of this century, is holding a family dinner party to celebrate his daughter's engagement. Into this cosy scene intrudes the harsh figure of a police inspector investigating the suicide of a young working-class woman, every member of the family turns out to have a shameful secret which links them with her death.

An interesting story, with not that many twists and turns in the plot. Rather predictable but a nice easy read.

Wasn’t my type of book I hated several characters 

Keira tanya

Millie

i unironically enjoyed reading this for gcses, the message is really good

Interesting piece on social issues, I can only recommend 

Eleanor Luhar

My GCSEs are coming up soon, and I was told that this play may be included. I remember a few people saying how much they loved this book and my school had a spare copy so I thought I may as well give it a read.

Wow. I didn't really look into the synopsis of this before I read it, and I'm kind of glad I didn't. The story unfolded so beautifully, and the Inspector's questions kept me gripped throughout the whole play. I was just desperate to know what had happened!

This is a pretty unique book in the way that they all talk about what happened in the past. Basically, a police inspector arrives and begins asking the group about a girl who has apparently committed suicide. None of them know her at first, until the inspector reminds them of the nasty things that they had each done to her. Slowly, we learn of the girl's life and put together all the pieces from each person's story.

This really is a great book! Honestly, I'm not much interested in plays and scripts, but this was just such a great read. It really makes you think about how your actions and words may affect someone in the long-run, and how much of an impact you can have on a stranger's life.

I sped through most of this in one evening. It is a short book, but the main reason I read it so fast is just because it was so very gripping and interesting. This is definitely a new favourite of mine; 5 stars!

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Ceyda karacan

First read this play for school and honestly love it now as much as I loved it then. The whole plot is amazing and there is so much to learn from each of the characters!
The inspectors last speech is one of the greatest things and the book and the cliff hangers ,especially the last one, really get you thinking

An Inspector Calls A Play in Three Acts

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