The Howards of Caxley - Hardcover
The last decade of old Septimus Howard's life sees many upheavals. War comes to Caxley, and his favorite grandson Edward, a pilot, brings home a wife who seems too cold and aloof for the Howard family. The Howards' restaurant in Market Square survives the wartime shortages, but its temperamental manager, Robert, is slipping past the point when eccentricity becomes insanity ...
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Miss Read is actually Mrs. Dora Saint, whose novels draw on her own memories of living and teaching in a small English village. She and her husband, a retired schoolmaster, have one daughter.
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- Publication date1968
- ISBN 10 9997529588
- ISBN 13 9789997529589
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages224
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The Howards of Caxley
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Houghton Mifflin Company
(1968)
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ISBN 13: 9789997529589
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