The Rector's Wife - Softcover
For 20 years Anna Bouverie, as a vicar's wife, had served God in a diversity of ways. When her husband failed to gain promotion and retreated into isolated bitterness, she rebelled and took a job in the local supermarket. Soon she found herself admired by three very different men.
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"The portrayal of the petty frustrations of clerical life is spot on and the novel is elegantly written" (The Sunday Times)
"I would have killed anyone who wrested this novel from my hands... it's compulsive reading" (The Times)
"This is Trollope's finest novel to date. Prepare to be wittily and wisely entertained by an exceptional writer" (Daily Mail)
"Like a Barbara Pym novel, though Joanna Trollope has a much stronger grasp than Pym on the tangled web of family life" (The Times)
"The portrayal of the petty frustrations of clerical life is spot on and the novel is elegantly written" (Sunday Telegraph)
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"I would have killed anyone who wrested this novel from my hands... it's compulsive reading" (The Times)
"This is Trollope's finest novel to date. Prepare to be wittily and wisely entertained by an exceptional writer" (Daily Mail)
"Like a Barbara Pym novel, though Joanna Trollope has a much stronger grasp than Pym on the tangled web of family life" (The Times)
"The portrayal of the petty frustrations of clerical life is spot on and the novel is elegantly written" (Sunday Telegraph)
A poignant story of lonliness, rebellion and love.
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- PublisherBlack Swan
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0552995541
- ISBN 13 9780552995542
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages288
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Reissued. Good condition paperback no DJ. For twenty years Anna Bouverie, as a priest's wife (£9000 a year and a redbrick rectory that looked like a bus shelter) had served God and the parish in a diversity of ways. She had organised the deanery suppers, made cakes for the Brownies' Easter Cake Bake, delivered parish magazines, washed and ironed her husband's surplices (not altogether perfectly according to Miss Dunstable), grown her own vegetables and clothed herself and her children in left-over jumble-sale items. Seller Inventory # 006718
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