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Uprooted from war-torn London, Alda Lucie-Brown and her three daughters start a new life at Pine Cottage in rural Sussex. Unsuited to a quiet life, Alda attempts to orchestrate - with varying degrees of success - the love affairs of her neighbours. Her unwilling subjects include an Italian POW, a Communist field-hand, a battery-chicken farmer and her intelligent friend Jean.
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"Her character drawing is perfection, and her sense of fun too subtle to permit quotation" (James Agate, author of Ego)
"Chipper is the word: Gibbons's heroines are plucky, determined and quietly hedonistic. But she can do melancholy with the best of them, too, not to mention melodrama" (Guardian)
"Stella Gibbons...an exception to that old canard: women can't make us laugh" (Independent)
"The Jane Austen of the 20th century" (Lynne Truss)
"Stella is stellar" (Sunday Herald)
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"Chipper is the word: Gibbons's heroines are plucky, determined and quietly hedonistic. But she can do melancholy with the best of them, too, not to mention melodrama" (Guardian)
"Stella Gibbons...an exception to that old canard: women can't make us laugh" (Independent)
"The Jane Austen of the 20th century" (Lynne Truss)
"Stella is stellar" (Sunday Herald)
'Her character drawing is perfection, and her sense of fun too subtle to permit quotation' - James Agate, author of Ego
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- PublisherTBS The Book Service Ltd
- Publication date1972
- ISBN 10 0856178543
- ISBN 13 9780856178542
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages416
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The Matchmaker
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The Book Club, London
(1950)
ISBN 10: 0856178543
ISBN 13: 9780856178542
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Book Description Red Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No dj. First Edition thus. Sound tight decent red cloth book club ptg, nice paper, a few marks to boards, free of inscr. Foxing freckles to endpapers. Size: 12mo. Seller Inventory # 020958
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