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Peace Breaks Out
Even drama settles into circumstance, as the denizens of Barsetshire have learned through the private and public worries the Second World War has delivered to the home front. When peace breaks out, it surprises and unsettles familiar wartime routines, and the residents of Angela Thirkell's fictional world of town and country seem nearly as disconcerted as they are overjoye...more
Paperback, 332 pages
Published
April 28th 1997
by Moyer Bell
(first published 1946)
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David Leslie earned no one's respect in WILD STRAWBERRIES, and now he has pulled another pair of attractive young girls into his orbit. The Leslies have as guests Anne Fielding and Silvia Halliday. David thinks both of them would be quite worth cultivating, careless of the resulting heartburning. He doesn't get his just deserts, but he does get his come-uppance.
When WWII came to an end in England, the population didn't settle back with a sigh of relief. They had been not only losing ...more
When WWII came to an end in England, the population didn't settle back with a sigh of relief. They had been not only losing ...more
Angela Thirkell wrote novels set in Anthony Trollope’s fictional Barsetshire, but set ~100 years on, i.e. in her own time, and populated with descendants of Trollope’s characters. The obvious question is “why?”.
It is set just as WW2 is about to end. After six years of war, people are anxious about the upheaval and uncertainty peace will bring, exacerbated by their awareness that social norms are already beginning to change, so that they are no longer quite confident as to how to beha...more
It is set just as WW2 is about to end. After six years of war, people are anxious about the upheaval and uncertainty peace will bring, exacerbated by their awareness that social norms are already beginning to change, so that they are no longer quite confident as to how to beha...more
Great novel about England as WWII ends. Charming author. It is at Woodland Public library - first checked out in the 40s
One of her milder stories, with romance between Martin and Sylvia (lovely but dull as they are) and Robin and Anne (sweet and pure), both almost derailed by the easily bored David, who spices things up a bit and gets his own happy ending. Read it for her rant about the results of peace, which is too long to quote here but captures the exhaustion and general exasperation of the populace at the prospect of finally being done with the war.
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I read a slew of Angela Thirkell books about 15-20 years ago. As escapist literature, they are great! Thirkell is Anthony Trollope's granddaughter who continued the story of Barsetshire made famous in grandpere's books. They are set between the two World Wars.
Delightful, fluffy, endearing....
Delightful, fluffy, endearing....
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Angela Margaret Mackail was born on January 30, 1890 at 27 Young Street, Kensington Square, London. Her grandfather was Sir Edward Burne-Jones the pre-Raphaelite painter and partner in the design firm of Morris and Company for whom he designed many stained glass windows - seven of which are in St Margaret's Church in Rottingdean, West Sussex. Her grandmother was Georgiana Macdonald, one of a prec...more
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