Private Enterprise: Volume 16 - Angela Thirkell

Descriere Private Enterprise: Volume 16 - Angela Thirkell

Amid food shortages and grumbling, Barsetshire is unsettled by the arrival of a pretty war widow in this delicately humorous [and] entertaining novel (The New York Times). \n \nWorld War II may be over, but its effects linger in the English countryside as the local ladies trade ration coupons for a paltry selection of provisions. It's feeling like a bleak summer--but it won't be a boring one, now that flirtatious young widow Peggy Arbuthnot and her sister-in-law, Effie, are on the scene. Peggy has quite a few admirers--including Noel Merton, which is rather unfortunate for his wife. Suspense reigns over who might win Peggy's hand--and whether the Merton marriage will survive . . . \n \nWhere Trollope would have been content to arouse a chuckle, [Thirkell] is constantly provoking us to hilarious laughter. . . . To read her is to get the feeling of knowing Barsetshire folk as well as if one had been born and bred in the county. --Kirkus Reviews

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Open Road Media

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9781504092869

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