Lucia in Wartime (1985)

by Tom Holt

Series: Mapp and Lucia Continuations (1)

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Fiction. Historical Fiction. HTML: Across the Channel, the battle rages. On the Tilling front, another battle is being fought�the constant war of wits and social ascendancy between Lucia Pillson and Elizabeth Mapp-Flint. Lucia invariably wins the day. But how long will she be able to retain the admiration of all Tilling if her power remains unchecked? The first of Tom Holt's official sequels to E.F. Benson's Lucia series. .… (more)

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Really quite enjoyable. Holt, at the time very young, admirably captures Benson's style (the books were commissioned when the old TV adaptation with Geraldine McEwan and Prunella Scales came out) although there is in his approach to the characters and situations something of a modern twist. I prefer Holt's second, Lucia Triumphant, but I was pleasantly surprised to see how strong this was. (

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1985

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Emmeline Lucas (Lucia Pillson)

Georgie Pillson

Elizabeth Mapp (Elizabeth Mapp-Flint)

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Tilling, Hampshire, England, UK

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Dedicated to Edward Frederick Benson 1887-1940 'Servant of God-Brave Sufferer-Author-Three Times Mayor of Rye'

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It might have been supposed that the outbreak of war would have broken the spirit of Mrs. Emmeline Pillson, formerly Lucas, nee Smythe, always Lucia, three times Mayor of Tilling.

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Fiction. Historical Fiction. HTML:

Across the Channel, the battle rages. On the Tilling front, another battle is being fought�the constant war of wits and social ascendancy between Lucia Pillson and Elizabeth Mapp-Flint. Lucia invariably wins the day. But how long will she be able to retain the admiration of all Tilling if her power remains unchecked? The first of Tom Holt's official sequels to E.F. Benson's Lucia series.

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