The Brandons by Angela Thirkell - ISBN: 9781844089703
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Lovely widow, meddling aunt, and matchmaking mayhem in Barsetshire!

The Brandons

A Virago Modern Classic

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  • Paperback

    384 pages

  • Release Date

    24 June 2014

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Summary

Lavinia Brandon is quite the loveliest widow in Barsetshire, blessed with beauty and grace, as well as two handsome grown-up children, Delia and Francis. So thinks their cousin Hilary Grant when he comes to stay and - like many before him - promptly falls for his fragrant hostess. Meanwhile, the Brandons’ ill-tempered dowager aunt is stirring up controversy over her legacy, and Lavinia’s attention is further occupied by the challenges of making a match between the vicar and gifted village hel…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781844089703
ISBN-10:1844089703
Author:Angela Thirkell
Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint:Virago Press Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:384
Release Date:24 June 2014
Weight:266g
Dimensions:204mm x 183mm x 24mm
Series:Virago Modern Classics
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Critics Review

Angela Thirkell is perhaps the most Pym-like of any twentieth-century author, after Pym herself

About The Author

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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