I'm needing help finding out more information about a book for a friend. We were talking about books that we loved as children etc, and she said that she can remember a book that she read when she was younger [at least 10 years ago].
In short, it was quite possibly set in England pre and during the depression. There was some cracker who basically foresaw the depression, and went out and got a huge loan and stocked up on goods and lived throughout the depression as a family that was a class above the rest. They had to go through all these extra security measures as well, given that they appeared to be rich while everyone was basically stewing in their own filth.
Any help on this would be utterly amazing. Author, title etc. As I said, I havent really got all that much to go on :S
