Angela Thirkell

High Rising

Buch

Successful novelist Laura Morland and her boisterous son Tony set off to spend Christmas at her country home in the sleepy surrounds of High Rising. But Laura's wealthy friend and neighbour George Knox has taken on a scheming secretary whose designs on marriage to her employer threaten the delicate social fabric of the village. Can clever, practical Laura rescue George from Miss Grey's clutches and, what's more, help his daughter Miss Sibyl Knox to secure her longed-for engagement?Charming, funny and irresistibly entertaining, High Rising, first published in 1933, was the first of Angela Thirkell's celebrated classic comedies.

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: McCall Smith, Alexander (Einf.)

ISBN: 978-1-84408-883-6
EAN: 9781844088836
Produktnummer: 13299578
Verlag: Little, Brown and Company
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Seitenangabe: 288 S.
Ausstattung: B-Format Paperback
Masse: H19.9 cm x B12.9 cm x D3.0 cm 200 g
Reihenbandnummer: 370
Gewicht: 200

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.