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Close Quarters: Volume 27
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Series: Barsetshire Novels
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ISBN10: 1504092813
ISBN13: 9781504092814
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: Dec 24 2024
Pages: 312
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.64 Width: 5.31 Depth: 8.04
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781504092814
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: Dec 24 2024
Pages: 312
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.64 Width: 5.31 Depth: 8.04
Language: English
A widow goes house-hunting in Barsetshire in this witty, moving novel by an author of graceful stories of upper-class English life (The New York Times).
One rainy summer, amid the social and cultural changes of postwar England, Mrs. Macfadyen wrestles with the loss of her beloved husband after just five years of happiness. Life has left her uprooted--but where can she replant herself? The hunt for a new house (preferably not too close to her mother's) will involve everyone from friends and neighbors to an old suitor and the local clergy, but ultimately the decision--and her future--is up to her . . .
Recreating Anthony Trollope's fictional county and bringing it into the mid-twentieth century, Angela Thirkell tells a tale filled with heartache, humor, and sharp social observation.
It is in [Mrs. Macfadyen's] fitful remembrance, quiet loneliness and gentle acceptance, that one realizes her author's sense of the poetry in life, and her sympathetic ear for the nuances of pain. --The New York Times
One rainy summer, amid the social and cultural changes of postwar England, Mrs. Macfadyen wrestles with the loss of her beloved husband after just five years of happiness. Life has left her uprooted--but where can she replant herself? The hunt for a new house (preferably not too close to her mother's) will involve everyone from friends and neighbors to an old suitor and the local clergy, but ultimately the decision--and her future--is up to her . . .
Recreating Anthony Trollope's fictional county and bringing it into the mid-twentieth century, Angela Thirkell tells a tale filled with heartache, humor, and sharp social observation.
It is in [Mrs. Macfadyen's] fitful remembrance, quiet loneliness and gentle acceptance, that one realizes her author's sense of the poetry in life, and her sympathetic ear for the nuances of pain. --The New York Times
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