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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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  • Peace, Perfect Peace

    Instinctively Frances fumbled in her handbag for a torch before she faced the lights and the certainty of the lifted black-out. For some time now she had taken streetlighting for granted, but in her present sense of withdrawal she had forgotten.Set just after World War II, Peace, Perfect Peace is a poignant and humorous tale about women readjusting and rebuilding their lives after the upheavals of ... Leer más

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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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  • All Done by Kindness

    “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 ... Leer más

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  • Apricot Sky

    de Ruby Ferguson ...
    "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 ... 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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  • Poppies for England

    This one week's holiday was all that most of the audience could get, they were free for one week from food queues, housework and even, for many hours a day, the care of their children. It was a week of absolute rest, but everybody in the audience knew that outside the camp lay the hard, difficult world of 1946.The Corners and the Binns are show business families on the verge of dire straits due to ... 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Peter and Paul

    It is not fun being the plain one of the family. But being the plain one of twins is a wretched position. That's why parables about grains of mustard seed, which grew up and startled everybody by their magnificence, did Pauline good.Petronella and Pauline Lane are 17-year-old twins, but not identical. "Peter", kind but utterly self-absorbed, is ravishingly beautiful while "Paul"-practical, ... Leer más

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