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The ruthlessly ambitious Joe Lampton rises swiftly from the petty bureaucracy of local government into the unfamiliar world of inherited wealth, fast cars and glamorous women. But the price of success is high.

"It deserves its success. It is very far from being a mere frivolous bestseller." - Anthony Burgess, "Observer"
"Alive from the first moment to the last." - "Listener"
"John Braine has brilliantly repeated the success of his first novel." - Arthur Calder-Marshall, "Financial Times"
In John Braine's remarkable first novel, "Room at the Top" (1957), he introduced readers to Joe Lampton, a ruthlessly ambitious young working-class man determined to reach the top at any cost. The book became a defining novel of the decade, selling over a million copies and being adapted for an...

"A valid and important human situation . . . The book is vivid with the characteristic Braine sights and smells." - Kenneth Allsop, "Daily Mail"
"Triumphantly underlines the point that "Room at the Top" was no flash-in-the-pan. He alone, of the generation that has achieved celebrity in the last five years, is a genuine novelist in the great tradition." - "Yorkshire Post"
"A gifted and skilled writer . . . His prose is at its best extremely vivid." - Richard Hoggart, "The Guardian"
"The work of a real writer." - Peter Green, "The Telegraph"
"Once again Mr. Braine shows his...

"Remember the name John Braine. You'll be hearing quite a lot about him. Room at the Top is his first novel and it is a remarkable one . . . it's a long time since we heard the hunger of youth really snarling and it's a good sound to hear again." - "Sunday Times"
"The most discussed, debated and lauded first novel of the year." - "New York Times"
"This novel is brilliant . . . The observation is shrewd and the emotion and the comedy are so true it hurts." - "Daily Express"
Brought up amid squalor and poverty in a dead, ugly small town, young Joe Lampton has one ambition: to...