Carol's review
The Small House at Allington (Pengin Classics) by Anthony Trollope
Someone somewhere once quoted Virginia Woolf as having said that "The Small House at Allington" was perhaps the most perfect English novel. I was glad because I feel like Anthony Trollope gets nowhere near the recognition he deserves. These novels are very old-fashioned, they take 75 pages of exposition before anything happens but they still work. The characters, the dilemmas, the manners, it's all there if you are willing to keep reading past the second chapter.
