One Afternoon
By: Siân James
4.10
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
The preface to One Afternoon is by Emma Schofield, the editor of the Welsh Arts Review. She writes …
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1. The Feast
By: Margaret Kennedy
3.93
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
Initially was published in a shortened form in a 1949 Ladies Home Journal magazine under the title … read more
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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 Provincial Lady in London
By: E.M. Delafield
3.96
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
These highly acclaimed, delightful novels are written in diary form by the Provincial Lady, who liv… read more
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3. Hostages to Fortune
By: Elizabeth Cambridge
3.74
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
This autobiographical first novel follows the life of a young woman from 1915 when she has her firs… read more
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4. 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
5. The Rector's Daughter
By: F.M. Mayor
4.11
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Dedmayne Rectory is quietly decaying, its striped chintz and darkened rooms are a bastion of outmod… read more
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6. 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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7. 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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8. Offshore
By: Penelope Fitzgerald
3.91
Format: 736 pages,
An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found On the Battersea Reach of the Thames, a m… read more
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9. 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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10. The Lost Garden
By: Helen Humphreys
3.47
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Fleeing war-torn London in 1941, gardener Gwen Davis leav… read more
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11. 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. Cheerful Weather for the Wedding
By: Frances Partridge , Julia Strachey
4.42
Format: None pages, Paperback
This short, witty novel was written in 1932 by a niece of Lytton Strachey and first published by Th… read more
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13. Vera
By: Elizabeth von Arnim
3.00
Format: 285 pages,
First published in 1921, Verais a darkly comic story about Lucy Entwhistle and Everard Wemyss. Both… 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. The Making of a Marchioness, Part I and II (Emily Fox-Seton #1-2)
By: Frances Hodgson Burnett
3.56
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
First published in 1901 as The Making of a Marchioness followed by its sequel The Methods of Lady W… read more
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16. Doreen
By: Barbara Noble
4.17
Format: 510 pages, Paperback
Describes the mind of a child torn between her mother, whom she leaves behind in London, and the co… read more
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17. Introduction to Sally
By: Elizabeth von Arnim
3.66
Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition
This 1926 romantic comedy was one of Elizabeth von Arnim's most popular works -- more popular in it… read more
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18. Oh, qué espléndida música
By: Dorothy Evelyn Smith
4.54
Format: 377 pages, Hardcover
¡Oh, qué espléndida la música de los días de la infancia, cuando todo era inmenso, el mundo entero … 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. Expiación
By: Elizabeth von Arnim
3.90
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Todo el mundo adora a Milly, la mujer de Ernest Bott. Y es que es la esposa encantadora, amable, d… read more
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21. Mistletoe Malice
By: Kathleen Farrell
2.75
Format: 270 pages, Paperback
A dysfunctional family reunites for the Christmas holiday from hell in this rediscovered festive cl… read more
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22. Out of the Window
By: Madeline Linford
4.16
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The compelling, thought-provoking story of Ursula, the daughter of a wealthy Mancunian family, who … read more
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23. 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
24. The Mission House
By: Carys Davies
3.75
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In The Mission House, Hilary Byrd flees his demons and the dark undercurrents of contemporary life … read more
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25. One Afternoon
By: Siân James
4.10
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
The preface to One Afternoon is by Emma Schofield, the editor of the Welsh Arts Review. She writes … read more
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26. One Year's Time
By: Angela Milne
3.68
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
It's New Year's Day and Liza is painting her floor. Walter, who she met at the party the night befo… read more
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27. Strange Journey
By: Maud Cairnes
4.03
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
In this body swap comedy from the 1930s, the minds of two strangers, aristocrat Lady Elizabeth and … read more
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28. The Happiness of Dogs: Why the Unexamined Life Is Most Worth Living
By: Mark Rowlands
4.00
Format: 212 pages, Kindle Edition
If a dog could write a book of philosophy, what would it contain?If you have spent part of your lif… read more
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