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Synopsis
As war drags on, Beliers Priory in East Barsetshire, home to Sir Harry and Lady Waring, becomes a convalescent hospital for soldiers as well as home to their niece Leslie, and Capt. Noel and Lydia Merton from West Barsetshire. In the meantime, Philip Winter meets Leslie, their relationship developing subsequent problems which are finally resolved. Romance proceeds apace "downstairs" as well as "upstairs", where a trio of followers is pursuing Selina, the housemaid, with eventually a most suitable conclusion. But the stationmaster whose son is a POW in Germany, Tommy Needham's amputated arm, and everyone's uncertainty about absent friends and relatives form sombre counterpoints to the general attitude of "soldiering on". As Lydia observes: they are "growing up".
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Angela Thirkell was born in London in 1890. Mrs. Thirkell did not begin writing novels until her return to Britain in 1930; then, for the rest of her life, she produced a new book almost every year until her death in 1961.
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That Angela Thirkell is a wily one....You read her, relaxed and smiling from the first word to the last. And at the end you find she has managed somehow or other to slip your guard a comprehensive and solid impression of life in an English village during wartime. That's art! -- Book Week
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- PublisherIsis Large Print
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 0753168898
- ISBN 13 9780753168899
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages416
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