Angela Thirkell

Never too Late (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A picturesque community in postwar England comes together when it counts in this witty, moving novel in the "beloved" Barsetshire series ( Publishers Weekly). Edith Graham is still single when she returns from America to visit Mrs. Morland, and there's no shortage of interested men-until three suitors find each other such good company that they start socializing together and ignoring her. Meanwhile, Mrs. Morland has received a marriage proposal herself and needs to let the dear man down gently. But while these day-to-day problems preoccupy the two women and their Barsetshire neighbors, they will soon be united by a poignant loss... "Here are the familiar cross-county conversations, the disentangling of relationships, the good pieces of meddling and the criticisms and comments that embroider this ever-unfolding panorama of English life." - Kirkus Reviews "Thirkell writes in a charmingly easy and intimate style." - The New York Times "Her writing celebrates the solid parochial English virtues of stiff-upper-lippery, good-sportingness, dislike of fuss, and low-key irony.... Light, witty, easygoing books." - The New Yorker

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Open Road Media
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781504091121
• Artikelnr.: 69816021

Autorenporträt

Angela Thirkell (1890-1961) was a British author whose ability to produce one book a year, every year, and set in that year blurred the lines between novelist and social historian. Like so many of the writers that she admired-Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, George Eliot-Thirkell shared their X-ray vision: an unmatched ability to assess the hypocrisies, desires, and prejudices of her characters and, better still, play them for laughs. Her biggest literary project, the Barsetshire Chronicles, consists of twenty-nine novels, each acting as another slice of English country life; a utopian vision of bucolic countryside, grand manors, and village fêtes.