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  • Wine of Honour

    I wonder how many women today are back in their pre-war ruts. For how many was the war merely a temporary disarrangement and for how many others has it meant complete re-adjustment, an entirely new set of circumstances? This is a stupid thought for me to have when, even in my own case, I don’t know the answer.Helen Townsend and neighbour Laura Watson are unlikely friends as a result of serving ... Leer más

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  • The Stone of Chastity

    de Margery Sharp ...
    "It's in my mind to put an end to this heathen wickedness that's stalking abroad through Gillenham. It's in my mind to terrify that evil man from his morrow's sinful doings.""We'll be going to Old Manor, then?""Not yet," said Mrs. Pye grimly. "We go first to the village. To rouse the women . . ."Professor Pounce arrives in the idyllic village of Gillenham, along with his sister-in-law, his nephew ... Leer más

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  • Beneath the Visiting Moon

    de Romilly Cavan ...
    Tom came running up, pulling at his socks, so that there seemed something hiccuping, drunken, in his progress.“We have been cleaning up,” he said cheerfully.Mrs. Oxford winced. These poor children in their menial roles—And here came Sarah, with a smut on her cheek.Left in genteel poverty by the death of their father, the Fontayne siblings—Sarah, Philly, Christopher, and Tom—are shaken when their ... Leer más

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  • Table Two

    “It’s awful to think that there are nine of us here to-day at this table and in six months’ time we may all be dead,” said Miss Purbeck. “There were thousands killed last night, so the bus conductor told me.”“You certainly are our little ray of sunshine,” said Elsie scornfully.Marjorie Wilenski’s only novel, as biting and funny as Barbara Pym at her crankiest, follows an office of women ... Leer más

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  • A House in the Country

    de Ruth Adam ...
    "[I]f only we could make the manor subscribe a little bit towards her own upkeep," we fretted.But she was an aristocratic lady on our hands. All ideas for making her work for a living were wrecked on the fact that she was born to be served and not to serve.Six friends have spent the dark, deprived years of World War II fantasising-in air raid shelters and food queues-about an idyllic life in a ... Leer más

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  • Not at Home

    “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 ... Leer más

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  • Babbacombe's. Illustrated

    Noel Streatfeild's Babbacombe's is a captivating novel that explores the triumphs and struggles of a prestigious London department store and the family behind it. Known for her keen insight into ambition, social class, and human relationships, Streatfeild crafts a rich, character-driven narrative set in the dynamic world of retail and business.The novel follows multiple generations of the ... Leer más

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  • Rhododendron Pie

    de Margery Sharp ...
    It was indeed very difficult for the Laventie children not to be a little priggish.Ann Laventie, the youngest of three children in a long line of anti-social Sussex gentry, doesn't quite fit the mould of her intellectual, elegant, ultra-modern siblings Dick, an artist, and Elizabeth, a high-brow writer. Their father is scholarly and just wealthy enough to focus all his attention on reading and ... Leer más

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  • Sally-Ann. Illustrated

    Noel Streatfeild's Sally-Ann is a charming and insightful novel that follows the journey of a young woman striving for success and independence in the world of theater. Known for her deep understanding of ambition, talent, and personal growth, Streatfeild crafts a compelling coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of the performing arts.Sally-Ann, a determined and spirited young woman, dreams ... Leer más

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  • The House Opposite

    It was curious that the aerial bombardment of London, which had ennobled so much that was normally sordid, should only debase a love affair between two people who had managed for three years to overcome the threat to their relations implicit in all such. To die together would be simple. It would not be so simple to be dug out still alive from the same collapsed building.Elizabeth Simpson is a ... Leer más

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  • Clothes-Pegs. Illustrated

    Noel Streatfeild's Clothes-Pegs is a captivating novel that delves into the glamorous yet often unforgiving world of fashion and theater in 1920s London. As one of Streatfeild's early adult novels, it showcases her keen understanding of ambition, personal growth, and the complexities of human relationships.The story follows a young woman named Ethel, who unexpectedly finds herself drawn into the ... Leer más

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  • Miss Carter and the Ifrit

    To look at Miss Georgina Carter you would never have suspected that a woman of her age and character would have allowed herself to be so wholeheartedly mixed up with an Ifrit.It’s the final months of World War II and Georgina Carter, a single woman in her late forties with a drab job in the Censorship office, is convinced that nothing very shattering, nothing very devastating could happen to one ... Leer más

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