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21) Saraband
Author
Series
Virago modern classic ; no. 223
Publisher
Virago
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
22) Jenny Wren
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
English
Description
On their father's death, Jenny and Dahlia Rendall, with their mother Louisa, move across the river to Upper Radstowe. They try to make a living by taking in lodgers. The neighbors eye this all-female household with alarm and distrust, especially with Louisa who had callers.
25) The caravaners
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
Description
Elizabeth von Arnim's eighth novel is a sharp contrast to the sunny optimism of her first best-seller Elizabeth and her German Garden (1898) and her later hit The Enchanted April (1922, adapted several times for screen and stage, including the 1991 film). The Caravaners (1909) is a devastating comedy about an Edwardian caravan holiday in Kent, narrated by the pompous and self-important Baron, a Prussian Major in the German army.
His narrative of pained...
26) Winter sonata
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
Description
"Arnold Nettle, a shy, young telegraph clerk, arrives in a secluded English village when through the post office window he sees a beautiful woman, Olivia, walk past and her appearance seems to herald a new hope for his life." --
27) Frost in May
Author
Publisher
Dial Press
Pub. Date
[1980]
Language
English
Description
Nanda Gray, the daughter of a Catholic convert, is nine when she is sent to the Convent of Five Wounds. Quick-witted, resilient, and eager to please, she accepts this closed world where, with all the enthusiasm of the outsider, her desires and passions become only those the school permits. Her only deviation from total obedience is the passionate friendships she makes.
Convent life is perfectly captured-the smell of beeswax and incense; the petty...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In The Dud Avocado, Elaine Dundy revealed the life of the young expatriate in Paris in all its hilarious and heartbreaking drama. With The Old Man and Me, written when Dundy was living in England in the early 1960s, she tackles the American girl in London, a bit older but certainly no wiser. Honey Flood (if that's her real name) arrives in London with only her quick wits and a scheme. To get what she wants, she'll have to seduce the city's brightest...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books-Virago Press
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
Autobiographical novel of the life of an impoverished upper-middle class British girl from the 1920's through the 1960's. The heroine endures many hardships but bounces on, finding joy in art, friends and family--generally considering her life a great success.
33) Taking chances
Author
Series
Virago modern classics ; no. 255
Publisher
Virago
Pub. Date
1987.
Language
English
Description
A portrayal of the privileged Anglo-Irish community in the early part of the twentieth century.
34) Rhapsody
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
Description
Set in the leisurely world of country houses, rambling walks, afternoon tea and piano duets, these deceptively simple tales are of women and men who come together, sometimes ludicrously, often sadly--if at all.
39) Adam's breed
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
Description
"Illegitimate and orphaned, Gian-Luca is brought up by his Italian grandparents in their prosperous salumeria in Old Compton Street, Soho. Here, surrounded by plenty - by bottles of Chianti in straw petticoats, by pasta and garlic, strings of sausages and jars of dark olives - he lacks that more important sustenance, of the soul. A stranger in the land of his birth, denied religious identity and human love, Gian-Luca grows to maturity seeking to resolve...
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