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Synopsis
Follows the slightly off-balance but otherwise idyllic daily life of the residents of an English village during World War II
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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.
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Charming, very funny indeed. Angela Thirkell is perhaps the most Pym-like of any twentieth-century author, after Pym herself
You read her, laughing, and want to do your best to protect her characters from any reality but their own―New York Times
The novels are a delight, with touches of E. F. Benson, E. M. Delafield and P. G. Wodehouse―Independent on Sunday
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- PublisherCarroll & Graf Pub
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0786703806
- ISBN 13 9780786703807
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number2
- Number of pages318
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