Little Boy Lost
By: Marghanita Laski
3.40
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Hilary Wainwright, poet and intellectual, returns after the war to a blasted and impoverished Franc…
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1. Saplings
By: Noel Streatfeild
3.91
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
The four Wiltshire children live a comfortable middle-class English life. But as WWII overtakes the… read more
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- classics
- war
- world war ii
- fiction
- historical fiction
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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- classics
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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
"As is usual with the ignorant, long words had the fascination for both girls that obstacles on the road have for a bad driver; instead of avoiding them they ran into them."-Dorothy Whipple, The Priory
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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- classics
- fiction
- historical fiction
"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. Good Evening, Mrs Craven: The Wartime Stories of Mollie Panter-Downes
By: Mollie Panter-Downes
3.82
Format: 199 pages, Paperback
For fifty years Mollie Panter-Downes' name was associated with "The New Yorker", for which she wrot… read more
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- classics
- war
- world war ii
- fiction
- historical fiction
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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- classics
- fiction
- historical fiction
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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- classics
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- historical fiction
8. 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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- classics
- fiction
- historical fiction
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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- classics
- fiction
- historical fiction
10. Little Boy Lost
By: Marghanita Laski
3.40
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Hilary Wainwright, poet and intellectual, returns after the war to a blasted and impoverished Franc… read more
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- classics
- war
- world war ii
- france
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
11. 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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12. The Kill (Maeve Kerrigan, #5)
By: Jane Casey
3.12
Format: 56 pages, Hardcover
Maeve Kerrigan is used to investigating murders.But this time a killer has struck far too close to … read more
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13. The Lady Vanishes
By: Ethel Lina White
3.81
Format: None pages, Paperback
THE WORLD-FAMOUS SUSPENSE NOVEL FROM WHICH ALFRED HITCHCOCK CREATED HIS MOVIE MASTERPIECE, REDISCOV… read more
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14. 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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15. My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)
By: Joseph O'Connor
4.05
Format: 276 pages, Kindle Edition
From the best-selling author of Star of the Sea, a WWII-era “great escape” novel set in the Vatican… read more
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- world war ii
- war
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Life schools you the way no catechism will."-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)
"There are times when we must permit one another to lie."-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)
"I was singing in Belfast the night the Luftwaffe firebombed the theatre. That's what you call a mixed review."-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)
"A religiously minded kid will often be good at lying awake all night because you need an imagination if you're going to believe."-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)
16. 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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- fiction
- historical fiction
17. 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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- classics
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18. The Hopkins Manuscript
By: R.C. Sherriff
4.10
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
For fans of the popular and award-winning Netflix movie Don’t Look Up, a prescient, rediscovered sp… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
