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A picturesque community in postwar England comes together when it counts in this witty, moving novel in the "beloved" Barsetshire series ( Publishers Weekly). Edith Graham is still single when she returns from America to visit Mrs. Morland, and there's no shortage of interested men-until three suitors find each other such good company that they start socializing together and ignoring her. Meanwhile, Mrs. Morland has received a marriage proposal herself and needs to let the dear man down gently. But while these day-to-day problems preoccupy the two women and their Barsetshire neighbors, they wi...
A picturesque community in postwar England comes together when it counts in this witty, moving novel in the "beloved" Barsetshire series ( Publishers Weekly). Edith Graham is still single when she returns from America to visit Mrs. Morland, and there's no shortage of interested men-until three suitors find each other such good company that they start socializing together and ignoring her. Meanwhile, Mrs. Morland has received a marriage proposal herself and needs to let the dear man down gently. But while these day-to-day problems preoccupy the two women and their Barsetshire neighbors, they will soon be united by a poignant loss... "Here are the familiar cross-county conversations, the disentangling of relationships, the good pieces of meddling and the criticisms and comments that embroider this ever-unfolding panorama of English life." - Kirkus Reviews "Thirkell writes in a charmingly easy and intimate style." - The New York Times "Her writing celebrates the solid parochial English virtues of stiff-upper-lippery, good-sportingness, dislike of fuss, and low-key irony.... Light, witty, easygoing books." - The New Yorker
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