The Fortnight in September
By: R.C. Sherriff
3.97
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
The Fortnight in September embodies the kind of mundane normality the men in the dug-out longed for…
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By: Margaret Kennedy
3.93
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
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"She writes this biographical fiction, or fictional biography, whichever you like to call it. She takes some juicy scandal from the life of a famous person, and writes a novel round it. Any facts that…"-Margaret Kennedy, The Feast
"MYSELF: You have never understood. My integrity means more to me than happiness. CHRISTINA: You have none. There is no such thing. You are not a whole person. Nobody is. We are members one of another…"-Margaret Kennedy, The Feast
"[W]hen she was dying she asked me to promise never to leave Father. I couldn't refuse. It was the last thing she said. She was worried over what would happen to him. So you see!' 'How could she conde…"-Margaret Kennedy, The Feast
"What kind of books do you like?' 'I like books about nice people. And a story where it all comes out right in the end.' 'But Nancibel, that's not true to life.' 'I daresay not. Why should it be?' 'Yo…"-Margaret Kennedy, The Feast
2. The Priory
By: Dorothy Whipple
4.21
Format: 536 pages, Paperback
The setting for this, the third novel by Dorothy Whipple Persephone have published, is Saunby Prior… read more
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"Love is happy only when it is confident. When it is humble, it is full of pain and misgiving; there is hardly any happiness to be had out of it at all."-Dorothy Whipple, The Priory
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3. Someone at a Distance
By: Dorothy Whipple
4.21
Format: 413 pages, Paperback
'A very good novel indeed about the fragility and also the tenacity of love' commented the Spectato… read more
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"With love, you don't even need butter on your bread; without it, an elaborate feast is necessary to make you come to the table."-Dorothy Whipple, Someone at a Distance
"But Mrs. Brockington, old, alone, almost crippled by rheumatism, had faith and courage. She had more. She had a warm serenity, and when Ellen was with her, she almost had it too. For goodness is catc…"-Dorothy Whipple, Someone at a Distance
"All those books, all those prayers and she had got nothing from them. When everything went well for her she had been able to pray, she couldn't now. There was such urgency in her present situation th…"-Dorothy Whipple, Someone at a Distance
"A loved husband is the companion of companions, the supreme sharer, and a happy wife often sounds trivial when she is really sampling and enjoying their mutual and unique confidence. But in doing it,…"-Dorothy Whipple, Someone at a Distance
4. Greenery Street
By: Denis Mackail , Rebecca Cohen
3.87
Format: 392 pages, Paperback
PG Wodehouse described this novel as 'so good that it makes one feel that it's the only possible wa… read more
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"Is one changing all the time, then?' she asks. 'Am I changing - without knowing it?"-Denis Mackail, Greenery Street
"Caught in the doldrums of August we may have regretted the departing summer, having sighed over the vanished strawberries and all that they signified. Now, however, we look forward almost eagerly to …"-Denis Mackail, Greenery Street
5. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
By: Winifred Watson
4.29
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Miss Pettigrew, an approaching-middle-age governess, was accustomed to a household of unruly Englis… read more
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6. The Home-Maker
By: Dorothy Canfield Fisher
5.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Although this novel first appeared in 1924, it deals in an amazingly contemporary manner with the p… read more
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7. Mariana
By: Harriet Lane , Monica Dickens
4.33
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
Monica Dickens's first book, published in 1940, could easily have been called Mariana - an Englishw… read more
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8. They Were Sisters
By: Dorothy Whipple
4.06
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
Three sisters marry very different men and the choices they make determine whether they will flouri… read more
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9. Hier wonen ook mensen
By: Rob van Essen
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
Ze zijn allemaal op zoek naar geluk, verlossing en verlichting, de personages in Hier wonen ook men… read more
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10. Greenbanks
By: Dorothy Whipple
4.10
Format: 290 pages, Paperback
An early novel by Persephone's most popular author about an early 20th century family and, in parti… read more
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12. They Knew Mr. Knight
By: Dorothy Whipple
4.25
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
The Blakes are an ordinary family: Celia looks after the house and Thomas works at the family engin… read more
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13. Appointment with Venus
By: Jerrard Tickell
2.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
In 1940, after the fall of France, the fictitious Channel Island of Armorel is occupied by a small … read more
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14. Quartet in Autumn
By: Barbara Pym
3.90
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
This is the story of four people in late middle-age - Edwin, Norman, Letty and Marcia - whose chief… read more
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15. High Wages
By: Dorothy Whipple
4.24
Format: 376 pages, Paperback
A 1930 novel by Persephone Books' most popular writer about a girl who sets up a dress shop. read more
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16. William - An Englishman
By: Nicola Beauman , Cicely Hamilton
4.21
Format: None pages, Paperback
Williamwas 'written in a rage in 1918; this extraordinary novel... is a passionate assertion of the… read more
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17. The Greengage Summer
By: Rumer Godden
3.80
Format: None pages, Paperback
The faded elegance of Les Oeillets, with its bullet-scarred staircase and serene garden bounded by … read more
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18. The Two Mrs. Abbotts (Miss Buncle, #3)
By: D.E. Stevenson
3.94
Format: 313 pages, Hardcover
Mrs Abbott is flustered at the thought of putting up a lady from the Red Cross, but is happily surp… read more
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19. The Fortnight in September
By: R.C. Sherriff
3.97
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
The Fortnight in September embodies the kind of mundane normality the men in the dug-out longed for… read more
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20. Father
By: Elizabeth von Arnim
4.06
Format: 339 pages, Hardcover
"There came a moment, she imagined, in the lives of most unmarried daughters, and perhaps in other … read more
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"...listening with absorbed attention more to her voice than to what she was saying, and thinking how like she was, flowering through her voice into beauty in the darkness, to some butterflies he had …"-Elizabeth von Arnim, Father
"No one ever said aloud any of the kinds of things he was so constantly thinking, because no one in the parish, not Alice, not Lady Higgs, not anybody, ever seemed to see the things he saw. If they th…"-Elizabeth von Arnim, Father