Uprooted from war-torn London, Alda Lucie-Brown and her three daughters start a new life at Pine Cottage in rural Sussex. Unsuited to a quiet life, Alda attempts to orchestrate - with varying degrees of success - the love affairs of her neighbours. Her unwilling subjects include an Italian POW, a Communist field-hand, a battery-chicken farmer and her intelligent friend Jean.
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Review:
"Her character drawing is perfection, and her sense of fun too subtle to permit quotation" (James Agate, author of Ego)
"Chipper is the word: Gibbons's heroines are plucky, determined and quietly hedonistic. But she can do melancholy with the best of them, too, not to mention melodrama" (Guardian)
"Stella Gibbons...an exception to that old canard: women can't make us laugh" (Independent)
"The Jane Austen of the 20th century" (Lynne Truss)
"Stella is stellar" (Sunday Herald)
Book Description:
'Her character drawing is perfection, and her sense of fun too subtle to permit quotation' - James Agate, author of Ego
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- PublisherTBS The Book Service Ltd
- Publication date1972
- ISBN 10 0856178543
- ISBN 13 9780856178542
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages416
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