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August Folly: A Virago Modern Classic by Angela Thirkell
Category: Fiction | Series: VMC
It's August in the Barsetshire village of Worsted, and Richard Tebben, just down from Oxford, is contemplating the gloomy prospect of a long summer in the parental home. But the numerous and impossibly glamorous Dean family - exquisite Rachel, her capable husband and six of their nine brilliant children ...Show more
Before Lunch by Angela Thirkell
Category: Fiction | Series: VMC
Jack Middleton likes to imagine himself a country squire. At weekends he retires to Laverings Estate with his wife, Catherine. He may be pompous, and they may seem ill-matched, but the couple are devoted to each other. When Jack's widowed sister, Lilian, and her two stepchildren arrive to spend the sum ...Show more
Cheerfulness Breaks In by Angela Thirkell
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
'You read her, laughing, and want to do your best to protect her characters from any reality but their own' New York Times It is summer 1939 and the social event of the year is about to take place: Rose Birkett, a flighty beauty with a penchant for breaking engagements and hearts, is finally getting ma ...Show more
Christmas at High Rising: A Virago Modern Classic by Angela Thirkell
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
Originally published in the 1930s and 1940s and never before collected, these stories by the incomparable Angela Thirkell relate merry scenes of a trip to the pantomime, escapades on ice, a Christmas Day gone awry, and an electrifying afternoon for Laura Morland and friends at Low Rising, not to mention ...Show more
Growing Up by Angela Thirkell
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
'Charming, very funny indeed. Angela Thirkell is perhaps the most Pym-like of any twentieth-century author, after Pym herself' Alexander McCall Smith It is wartime in Barsetshire, and so much has changed. Belier's Priory is now a hospital for wounded soldiers, and Sir Harry and Lady Waring have moved t ...Show more
High Rising by Angela Thirkell; Alexander McCall Smith (Introduction by)
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
Successful lady novelist Laura Morland and her boisterous young son Tony set off to spend Christmas at her country home in the sleepy surrounds of High Rising. But Laura's wealthy friend and neighbour George Knox has taken on a scheming secretary whose designs on marriage to her employer threaten the de ...Show more
Love among the Ruins by Angela Thirkell
Category: Classics | Series: Barsetshire Ser.
'You read her, laughing, and want to do your best to protect her characters from any reality but their own' New York Times It's the summer of 1947, and peacetime has brought new challenges to Barsetshire. Beliers Priory, once a military hospital during the War, has now become a flourishing preparatory s ...Show more
Marling Hall by Angela Thirkell
Category: Classics | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
'You read her, laughing, and want to do your best to protect her characters from any reality but their own' New York TimesMr Marling, of Marling Hall, has begun to accept - albeit reluctantly - that he will probably never be able to pass his wonderful old estate on to his children. The Second World War ...Show more
Miss Bunting by Angela Thirkell
Category: Classics | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
Barsetshire in the war years. Miss Bunting, governess of choice to generations of Barsetshire aristocracy, has been coaxed out of retirement by Sir Robert and Lady Fielding to tutor their daughter Anne, delicate, sixteen years old, and totally lacking in confidence. When Anne makes friends with Heather ...Show more
Northbridge Rectory by Angela Thirkell
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
As the war continues it brings its own set of trials to the the village of Northbridge. Eight officers of the Barsetshire Regiment have been billeted at the rectory, and Mrs Villars, the Rector's wife, is finding the attentions of Lieutenant Holden (who doesn't seem to mind that she is married to his ho ...Show more
Peace Breaks Out by Angela Thirkell
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
'You read her, laughing, and want to do your best to protect her characters from any reality but their own' New York Times When peace breaks out, it surprises and unsettles familiar wartime routines, and the residents of Barsetshire seem as disconcerted as they are overjoyed. Nevertheless, as the count ...Show more
Pomfret Towers: A Virago Modern Classic by Angela Thirkell
Category: Fiction | Series: Vmc Ser.
This novel centers around the weekend party that Alice Barton, a shy English girl, attends at Pomfret Towers, the magnificent seventeenth-century home of Lord Pomfret. Alice's mother, Mrs. Barton, has decided that now is the time that timid, home-centered Alice, must learn to socialize. Alice, mustering ...Show more