One Fine Day by Mollie Panter-Downes - ISBN: 9780860685876
Paperback
Post-war England: finding hope and optimism amidst crumbling realities.

One Fine Day

The poignant classic for fans of A MONTH IN THE COUNTRY

  • Paperback

    192 pages

  • Release Date

    4 March 1997

Summary

It is a summer’s day in 1946. The English village of Wealding is no longer troubled by distant sirens, yet the rustling coils of barbed wire are a reminder that something, some quality of life, has evaporated. Together again after years of separation, Laura and Stephen Marshall and their daughter Victoria are forced to manage without ‘those anonymous caps and aprons who lived out of sight and pulled the strings’. Their rambling garden refuses to be tamed, the house seems perceptibly to crumbl…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780860685876
ISBN-10:086068587X
Author:Mollie Panter-Downes, Ali Mylon
Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint:Virago Press Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:192
Release Date:4 March 1997
Weight:141g
Dimensions:196mm x 128mm x 13mm
Series:Virago Modern Classics
What They're Saying

Critics Review

Mollie Panter-Downes is as profound as Katherine Mansfield, restrained as Jane Austen, sharp as Dorothy Parker

Mollie Panter-Downes is as profound as Katherine Mansfield, restrained as Jane Austen, sharp as Dorothy Parker - INDEPENDENT

Mollie Panter-Downes is as profound as Katherine Mansfield, restrained as Jane Austen, sharp as Dorothy Parker - INDEPENDENT

About The Author

Mollie Panter-Downes

Mollie Panter-Downes was born in London in 1906 and died in 1997. In 1939 she began her distinguished London correspondence for THE NEW YORKER.

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