High Rising - Hardcover

Thirkell, Angela

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9997532066 ISBN 13: 9789997532060

Publisher: Alfred A Knopf, 1951

Synopsis

Mrs Morland is successful, reasonably contented with her life, and certainly not looking for any romantic complications. She has enough to cope with already, what with problems at her publishers, her secretary's troubles with her elderly mother, and dealing with her youngest son, Tony, passionate about trains to the exclusion of all else. So attempts by well-meaning (and not so well-meaning) friends to promote her good friend George Knox as more than a good friend are unwelcome. Angela Thirkell is the doyenne of light fiction, combining sensitive characterisation with gentle irony, grave absurdity with shrewd observation. She is at her best in HIGH RISING. "Mrs. Thirkell's characterisations are delightful." THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

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Review:

The unmarried Anne Todd, a wonderful secretary as well as a devoted bedside nurse to her decrepit mother, is an archetypal Thirkell heroine: plucky, determined, resourceful, but acutely aware that being safely married would be a better alternative. The current resurgence of interest of Thirkell, several of whose 40-odd novels of life in imaginary "Barsetshire" before World War II are being reissued, has awakened a nostalgia for the sharp glittering surfaces of her work. High Rising is Thirkell at her warm, easygoing best.

About the Author:

Angela Thirkell (1890-1961) was the eldest daughter of John William Mackail, a Scottish classical scholar and civil servant, and Margaret Burne-Jones. Her relatives included the pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones, Rudyard Kipling and Stanley Baldwin, and her grandfather was J. M. Barrie. She was educated in London and Paris, and began publishing articles and stories in the 1920s. In 1931 she brought out her first book, a memoir entitled Three Houses, and in 1933 her comic novel High Rising - set in the fictional county of Barsetshire, borrowed from Trollope - met with great success. She went on to write nearly thirty Barsetshire novels, as well as several further works of fiction and non-fiction. She was twice married and had four children.

About this edition

• Publisher: Alfred A Knopf
• Publication date: 1951
• ISBN 10: 9997532066
• ISBN 13: 9789997532060
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 282