My mother never came to meet me at Bursley station when I arrived in the Five Towns from London. She always had other things to do; she was getting ready for me. So I always walked alone up Trafalgar Road, between the factories and past the football field. Arnold Bennett is famous for his stories about the Five Town and the people who live there. They look and sound just like other people, and, like all of us, sometimes they do some very strange things. There's Sir Jee, who is a rich businessman. They are not famous or important people. They work in shops and factories; they are clever and successful, and sometimes they do very stupid things. Philip has some important news to tell his mother, but portrait, but he is also going to get a big suprise. Arnold, Bennett. (2000). Dtories from the Five Towns . Oxford University Press.