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Loading... Close Quarters: A Novel (Thirkell, Angela Mackail, Angela Thirkell Barsetshire Series.) (original 1958; edition 2001)by Angela Mackail Thirkell
Work InformationClose Quarters by Angela Thirkell (1958)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. More melancholy than the typical Barshetshire book from Thirkell, this 27th entry in the series returns to Margot Phelps Macfayden. However, we do learn almost in passing that Edith Graham has finally become engaged (and not to her cousin Ludo)... ( ) no reviews | add a review
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A widow goes house-hunting in Barsetshire in this witty, moving novel by an author of "graceful stories of upper-class English life" (The New York Times).One rainy summer, amid the social and cultural changes of postwar England, Mrs. Macfadyen wrestles with the loss of her beloved husband after just five years of happiness. Life has left her uprooted--but where can she replant herself? The hunt for a new house (preferably not too close to her mother's) will involve everyone from friends and neighbors to an old suitor and the local clergy, but ultimately the decision--and her future--is up to her . . . Recreating Anthony Trollope's fictional county and bringing it into the mid-twentieth century, Angela Thirkell tells a tale filled with heartache, humor, and sharp social observation."It is in [Mrs. Macfadyen's] fitful remembrance, quiet loneliness and gentle acceptance, that one realizes her author's sense of the poetry in life, and her sympathetic ear for the nuances of pain." --The New York Times No library descriptions found. |
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