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Barsetshire in the latter years of the Second World War is a peaceful and gossipy place, but there has been one lively change. A girls' school, evacuated from London, has taken over Harefield Park. Miss Sparling seems to be the perfect headmistress: she dresses as a headmistress should and is an easy and erudite conversationalist. Her new neighbours like her and her pupils respect her, but there is something missing from her life; something which - though she never dreamt it when she arrived - perhaps Barsetshire can provide...
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You read her, laughing, and want to do your best to protect her characters from any reality but their own (New York Times)
The novels are a delight, with touches of E. F. Benson, E. M. Delafield and P. G. Wodehouse (Christopher Fowler Independent on Sunday)
Charming, very funny indeed. Angela Thirkell is perhaps the most Pym-like of any twentieth-century author, after Pym herself (Alexander McCall Smith)
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The novels are a delight, with touches of E. F. Benson, E. M. Delafield and P. G. Wodehouse (Christopher Fowler Independent on Sunday)
Charming, very funny indeed. Angela Thirkell is perhaps the most Pym-like of any twentieth-century author, after Pym herself (Alexander McCall Smith)
The next Angela Thirkell novel in the hugely successful series of charming English comedies set in the fictional county of Barsetshire.
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- PublisherMoyer Bell Ltd ,U.S.
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 1559211504
- ISBN 13 9781559211505
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