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Following the social event of the summer, the marriage of Rose Birkett (the county's scatterbrain heart-breaker), Fall brings WWII. The transition to war introduces unexpected elements into the Barsetshire milieu. Despite the newly somber atmosphere, evacuee children (see Nurse's 'lust for power over babies'), nouveau riche migr s (Mr. Gissings' suspiciously shaped head), and the Mixo-Lydians (and their embroideries) afford opportunities for snatching humor from the jaws of bleakness. The Bissells, lower-middle-class heads of a billeted non-U school, share, with the gentry, a mutual bewilderment of values. Mrs. Morland muses on Mrs. Bissell's business-like acceptance of 'the sinister implications of Adelina Cottage' shared by Miss Hampton and Miss Bent. The Keith family takes center stage as Lydia cares for the estate and her ailing mother while her friends pursue nursing and other war work. The young men pursue the young ladies and wartime accelerates the usual romantic coupling for a total of five, a record even for Thirkell.
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About the Author:
Angela Thirkell, granddaughter of Edward Burne-Jones, was born in London in 1890. At the age of twenty-eight she moved to Melbourne, Australia. Mrs Thirkell did not begin writing her novels until her return to Britain in 1930: then for the rest ofher life she produced a new book almost every year. She died in 1961 just before her 71st birthday.
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- PublisherMoyer Bell Ltd ,U.S.
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 1559213124
- ISBN 13 9781559213127
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages188
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