The Northern Light; by A. J. Cronin.

Northern Light is the name of a newspaper in a small town up north (- in UK, that means anywhere not within a couple of commuting hours of London). This story is about keeping that paper alive, through the difficult times of a big one trying to take over.

It is all the more relevant today when huge corporates have invaded all sorts of unimaginable areas of life personal and social, beyond the small business and small towns and street corner businesses. Keeping alive in face of this road roller and having an identity of one's own is as much a struggle for a person dressing up every day as it is for a culture, a nation, a society or a family. Or a couple trying to navigate labyrinths of love for that matter. Or a matter of what films one watches, what one thinks.