George Bowling is a middle-aged insurance salesman with a receding hairline, an expanding waistline, and a gnawing sense that life has passed him by. When a chance windfall offers him a brief escape from his dreary routine, he sets out in search of the idyllic childhood he once knew—the fishing ponds, green fields, and quiet streets of his boyhood town.

But what he finds is not the England he remembered. The fields have been swallowed by factories, the ponds drained, and the future bristles with the rumblings of war. With Orwell’s sharp wit and haunting clarity, Coming Up for Air captures the disillusionment of ordinary life on the brink of global upheaval. Both funny and deeply unsettling, it is a novel about memory, change, and the fragile spaces we try to preserve against the march of history.

George Orwell, born Eric Arthur Blair, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic, whose work remains some of the most influential writing of the 20th century. 

Known for his keen social commentary and unflinching honesty, Orwell wrote with rare clarity about politics, power, and the human condition. 

His novels Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four have become timeless classics, shaping the way we think about freedom, truth, and authoritarianism.