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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Second World War fiction
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Virago
- Paperback Jun 11, 2024 | 9780349018683 | RRP $24.99 Pre-Order
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Virago
- Paperback Jun 11, 2024 | 9780349018683 | RRP $24.99 Pre-Order
- e-Book Mar 7, 2024 | 9780349018690 | RRP $12.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Mar 7, 2024 | 9781405560337 | RRP $44.99 Buy Now
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Little, Brown Audio
- Paperback Jun 11, 2024 | 9780349018683 | RRP $24.99 Pre-Order
- e-Book Mar 7, 2024 | 9780349018690 | RRP $12.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Mar 7, 2024 | 9781405560337 | RRP $44.99 Buy Now
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Originally published in 1949, The Old Bank House is a charming and quintessentially British classic in Angela Thirkell's beloved Barsetshire series. Now available as a Virago Modern Classic.
'Charming, very funny indeed. Angela Thirkell is perhaps the most Pym-like of any twentieth-century author, after Pym herself' - Alexander McCall Smith
Edgewood Rectory may be set in an ancient landscape, but the Grantly family are very much of their time. Caught up in the uncertain world that has emerged since the outbreak of peace, the Rector and Mrs Grantly are bewildered by the challenges facing their eldest children: Eleanor, longing for more excitement than can be found in the Red Cross Library; and Tom, struggling to readjust to student life at Oxford after his military service.
When their elderly neighbour Miss Sowerby sells her beloved Old Bank House to self-made MP Sam Adams, the one-time outsider finds himself at the heart of Barsetshire society. And while Sam may dismiss her advice that the house needs a mistress, even a contented widower can be surprised by love.
Praise for The Old Bank House: A Virago Modern Classic
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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
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The novels are a delight, with touches of E. F. Benson, E. M. Delafield and P. G. Wodehouse - Independent on Sunday
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Charming, very funny indeed. Angela Thirkell is perhaps the most Pym-like of any twentieth-century author, after Pym herself - Alexander McCall Smith
Angela Thirkell
Angela Thirkell (1890-1961) was the eldest daughter of John William Mackail, a Scottish classical scholar and civil servant, and Margaret Burne-Jones. Her relatives included the pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones, Rudyard Kipling and Stanley Baldwin, and her grandfather was J. M. Barrie. She was educated in London and Paris, and began publishing articles and stories in the 1920s. In 1931 she brought out her first book, a memoir entitled Three Houses, and in 1933 her comic novel High Rising - set in the fictional county of Barsetshire, borrowed from Trollope - met with great success. She went on to write nearly thirty Barsetshire novels, as well as several further works of fiction and non-fiction. She was twice married and had four children.
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