Wild Strawberries :A Virago Modern Classic - Virago Modern Classics
Wild Strawberries :A Virago Modern Classic - Virago Modern Classics
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Published:
22 November, 2012
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| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9781844088843 |
| ISBN10 | 1844088847 |
| Number Of Pages | 288 |
| Item Weight | 234 g |
| Product Dimensions | 128 x 196 x 22 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Format | paperback |
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Charming, very funny indeed. Angela Thirkell is perhaps the most Pym-like of any twentieth-century author, after Pym herself -- Alexander McCall Smith
If you like Nancy Mitford you'll love this * Elle Decoration *
A witty romantic comedy and a warm and inviting piece of social satire from this sharply observant and popular writer * Good Book Guide *
With touches of Nancy Mitford, Barbara Pym and PG Wodehouse, Angela Thirkell's sparkling prose recounts misunderstandings and mishaps in a particularly English way. * Spectator *
Charming, very funny indeed. Angela Thirkell is perhaps the most Pym-like of any twentieth-century author, after Pym herself. -- Alexander McCall Smith
Appealing. * Glasgow Sunday Herald *
If you like Nancy Mitford you'll love this * Elle Decoration *
A witty romantic comedy and a warm and inviting piece of social satire from this sharply observant and popular writer * Good Book Guide *
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Author's Bio
Angela Thirkell (1890-1961) was the eldest daughter of John William Mackail, a Scottish classical scholar and civil servant, and Margaret Burne-Jones. Her relatives included the pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones, Rudyard Kipling and Stanley Baldwin, and her grandfather was J. M. Barrie. She was educated in London and Paris, and began publishing articles and stories in the 1920s. In 1931 she brought out her first book, a memoir entitled Three Houses, and in 1933 her comic novel High Rising - set in the fictional county of Barsetshire, borrowed from Trollope - met with great success. She went on to write nearly thirty Barsetshire novels, as well as several further works of fiction and non-fiction. She was twice married and had four children.