Angela Thirkell

Cheerfulness Breaks In

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'You read her, laughing, and want to do your best to protect her characters from any reality but their own' New York TimesIt is summer 1939 and the social event of the year is about to take place: Rose Birkett, a flighty beauty with a penchant for breaking engagements and hearts, is finally getting married, and the whole village - her parents included - breathes a sigh of relief.By autumn, however, summer weddings seem a distant memory as war reaches Barsetshire. While the younger generation throws itself into the war effort with cheerful aplomb, older residents keenly remember the last war, and are fearful. When an entire London school of ev… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-349-01341-1
EAN: 9780349013411
Produktnummer: 32388216
Verlag: Little, Brown and Company
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Seitenangabe: 336 S.
Ausstattung: B-Format Paperback
Masse: H19.8 cm x B12.6 cm
Reihenbandnummer: 367

Über den Autor

Angela Thirkell (1890-1961) was the eldest daughter of John William Mackail, a Scottish classical scholar and civil servant, and Margaret Burne-Jones. Her relatives included the pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones, Rudyard Kipling and Stanley Baldwin, and her grandfather was J. M. Barrie. She was educated in London and Paris, and began publishing articles and stories in the 1920s. In 1931 she brought out her first book, a memoir entitled Three Houses, and in 1933 her comic novel High Rising - set in the fictional county of Barsetshire, borrowed from Trollope - met with great success. She went on to write nearly thirty Barsetshire novels, as well as several further works of fiction and non-fiction. She was twice married and had four children.