The Headmistress
$35.18
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
10 January 2017
Summary
Barsetshire in the latter years of the Second World War is a peaceful and gossipy place, but there has been one lively change. A girls’ school, evacuated from London, has taken over Harefield Park. Miss Sparling seems to be the perfect headmistress: she dresses as a headmistress should and is an easy and erudite conversationalist. Her new neighbours like her and her pupils respect her, but there is something missing from her life; something which - though she never dreamt it when she arrived …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349007472 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349007470 |
| Author: | Angela Thirkell |
| Publisher: | Virago Press (UK) |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 10 January 2017 |
| Weight: | 265g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 128mm x 25mm |
| Series: | Virago Modern Classics |
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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
You read her, laughing, and want to do your best to protect her characters from any reality but their own - New York Times
The novels are a delight, with touches of E. F. Benson, E. M. Delafield and P. G. Wodehouse - Independent on Sunday
Charming, very funny indeed. Angela Thirkell is perhaps the most Pym-like of any twentieth-century author, after Pym herself - Alexander McCall Smith
About The Author
Angela Thirkell
Angela Thirkell, granddaughter of pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones, was born in London in 1890. Related to Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, cousin to Rudyard Kipling, and mother of Colin Maclnnes and Graham Mclnnes, Thirkell was one of the most famous comic novelists of her day. She began writing in 1930 to support herself and her sons. She died in 1961.
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