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Synopsis
Fanny Turner is a crafty woman who "would have felt sentiment of an infuriated kind" if her family duties had ever interfered with her frenetic social life. One weekend she invites Valentine Ensor, a divorced school friend of her husband Arthur, for a weekend, along with an older couple, the Howards, who bring along their daughter, the somewhat dour Aurea Palgrave. Aurea is now married and living quite unhappily in Canada, but Arthur had once been in love with her. The weekend is a somewhat predictable time of star-crossed love and slight misunderstandings that lead nowhere. Fanny is quite forward, and although she is married claims that one should always carry on with several men at once because "If you only care for one you'll always get hurt". With characteristic civility and sophistication, the author welcomes us into her fictional stretch of English countryside, a magical landscape spirited with good people going about the business of life, irresistibly entertaining in their determination to misunderstand each other.
Praise for Angela Thirkwell:
‘Charming, very funny indeed. Angela Thirkell is perhaps the most Pym-like of any twentieth-century author, after Pym herself’ - Alexander McCall Smith ‘With touches of Nancy Mitford, Barbara Pym and PG Wodehouse, Angela Thirkell's sparkling prose recounts misunderstandings and mishaps in a particularly English way.’ - Spectator ‘You read her, laughing, and want to do your best to protect her characters from any reality but their own.’ - New York Times Angela Thirkell (1890-1961) wrote many works of fiction and non-fiction, including twenty-nine Barsetshire novels, which won her great popularity and acclaim. The first of these, High Rising, was published in 1933. Her relatives included Edward Burne-Jones, Rudyard Kipling and Stanley Baldwin, and her godfather was J M Barrie. She was twice married and had four children."synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
From the Publisher
First published in 1933 and available for the first time in the U.S., Ankle Deep is one of Angela Thirkell's earliest novels. With characteristic civility and sophistication, the author welcomes us into her fictional stretch of English countryside, a magical landscape spirited with good people going about the business of life, irresistibly entertaining in their determination to misunderstand each other. In this case, the charming round of infatuations, endearments, and delightfully comic cross-purposes is set spinning by Fanny Turner whose favorite pastime is endeavoring to provide "a succession of possible brides" for her husband's former school friend, the charming, if not especially eligible, Valentine Ensor. Fanny's exuberant, misguided attempts at matchmaking produce a dizzying tangle of romantic mishaps when holiday guests show up with an attractive--and very married--daughter in tow. Thirkell's stylish prose and generous, yet acutely observant comedy offers a feast of reading that is cultivated, nourishing, refreshing and restorative. Moyer Bell is pleased to add Ankle Deep to its continuing series of Angela Thirkell books.
About the Author
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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- PublisherIndependently published
- Publication date2017
- ISBN 10 1549583522
- ISBN 13 9781549583520
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages200
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