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“doris langley moore”

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  • Not at Home

    by Doris Langley Moore ...
    “I don’t mind being alone at all. I was often here alone in the blitz, and I was so frightened of the bombs that I quite stopped being frightened of burglars.”World War II has ended, residents are flooding back to London, and the housing shortage creates strange bedfellows. Elinor MacFarren—middle-aged spinster, botanical writer, and collector of prints and objets d’art—decides to rent part of her ... Read more

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  • All Done by Kindness

    by Doris Langley Moore ...
    “There are some embroidered waistcoats . . . They are very old. A museum might be glad of them. . . . There are some pictures too,” Mrs. Hovenden brought out with a fresh effort, “oil paintings that were in the rector’s family.”The kindness of Dr George Sandilands towards an elderly patient, and her insistence on repaying him with the detritus of her attic, sets in motion a comedy of errors that ... Read more

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  • A Game of Snakes and Ladders

    by Doris Langley Moore ...
    Fanny Burney would not approve of some of my chapters, but it was my affection for the novels of her school, in which the heroine goes through all kinds of distresses but emerges in a sweeping triumph at the end, that made me long to try my hand at the same theme—treating it, however, in our down-to-earth twentieth-century way.This brilliant homage to the 19th century novel begins with two young ... Read more

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  • My Caravaggio Style

    by Doris Langley Moore ...
    “My finest, ferocious Caravaggio style”—that was his own phrase for his later manner; and that was the style I was aiming at, an interplay of light and shadow that would rivet the attention and, ultimately, draw the eye to darkness.At the beginning of Doris Langley Moore’s deliriously entertaining final novel, bookseller and author Quentin Williams has just received the royalties (just over £4) ... Read more

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  • Rhododendron Pie. Illustrated

    by Margery Sharp ...
    Rhododendron Pie by Margery Sharp is a witty and charming novel that blends comedy, romance, and sharp social observation. Set in the English countryside, the story follows a cast of eccentric and memorable characters whose lives become entangled through misunderstandings, ambitions, and unexpected emotional connections. At the center of the novel is a young woman navigating the complicated world ... Read more

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  • The Foolish Gentlewoman

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    Sentimental, affectionate, uncritical, Mrs. Bracken so easily attached herself to persons, places, and even objects that after no more than two days in an hotel she had a favourite waiter, a favourite ornament, a favourite view. She had adored her husband, and was very fond of her French pepper-mill.World War II has ended and widowed Isabel Brocken, kind-hearted and generous if perhaps just a bit ... Read more

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  • Fanfare for Tin Trumpets

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    He also made himself a weekly allowance of five shillings for cigarettes, stationery, amusements, shoe-repairs, razor-blades, laundry, toothpaste, hospitality and 'bus fares; and having thus cut his coat to his cloth, wore it in great content.The only thing he had not allowed for (and this in an author must surely be considered strange) was Love.Upon the death of his distant, unaffectionate father ... Read more

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  • Much Dithering

    by Dorothy Lambert ...
    The most striking thing about Much Dithering was its peacefulness. The few people who saw it from charabancs on morning or evening or circular drives said: "Isn't it peaceful?" or "Isn't it quiet?". And some said they thought it was a lovely place to be buried in, but while they were alive they preferred a place with more life, if you knew what they meant.The unlikely heroine of this delightful ... Read more

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  • Yoked with a Lamb

    by Molly Clavering ...
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  • Apricot Sky

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    "I'm haunted by an awful dread," said Raine. "It was a wedding Mysie once went to. The bridegroom never turned up and the bride swooned at the altar.""Have you practised swooning?"It's 1948 in the Scottish Highlands, with postwar austerity and rationing in full effect, but Mr and Mrs MacAlvey and their family and friends are too irrepressibly cheerful to let it get them down. There's Raine, newly ... Read more

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