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I loved this cover.
Just charming. I didn't love much else about this book.
I think I was expecting too much from this early work. Very few authors are immediately brilliant. But for me there were a lot of characters at the start, a lot of not much happening in the middle & a predictable ending that wrapped things up a bit too tidily.
I don't think Alexander McCall Smith's introduction of my edition added much to my understanding. However, Wikipedia's biography of Mrs Thirkell is fascinating ...more
Just charming. I didn't love much else about this book.I think I was expecting too much from this early work. Very few authors are immediately brilliant. But for me there were a lot of characters at the start, a lot of not much happening in the middle & a predictable ending that wrapped things up a bit too tidily.
I don't think Alexander McCall Smith's introduction of my edition added much to my understanding. However, Wikipedia's biography of Mrs Thirkell is fascinating ...more
3.5
How often are you attracted, or repulsed, by a book cover? Quite a lot as it happens when you don't know the author. The art style and colours of this one just called to me. I hadn't heard of Angela Thirkell but after reading the blurb at the back, I was interested.
The story focuses on Laura Morland, a 45-year-old widow with four sons, three of which fully grown, who turned to writing novels, or "good bad books" as she says, in order to pay her boys' school fees. We follow her from London to ...more
How often are you attracted, or repulsed, by a book cover? Quite a lot as it happens when you don't know the author. The art style and colours of this one just called to me. I hadn't heard of Angela Thirkell but after reading the blurb at the back, I was interested.
The story focuses on Laura Morland, a 45-year-old widow with four sons, three of which fully grown, who turned to writing novels, or "good bad books" as she says, in order to pay her boys' school fees. We follow her from London to ...more
What could be a better way to start the new year than by discovering a wonderful author--and one who was apparently delightfully prolific. High Rising has all the essential ingredients for a perfect cozy English Village tale: a charming heroine, a splendid cast of characters, witty dialog, a little romance, an impossibly talkative boy besotted with railways real and model, and best of all, a neurotic secretary with apparent designs on the menfolk. It is all great fun, an undemanding and easy rea
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This is just the sort of book to read for light entertainment. I love British novels, this one written in 1933 with a distinctly nostalgic feel, and heroines like Laura Morland who is intelligent and witty in her dealings with all the other interesting characters who live in the village of High Rising (as opposed to its neighbour Low Rising). The dialogue is nothing short of brilliant.
Lovely charming silly read. I want to join all these characters for tea and gossip!
A perfect little gem.
Nov 20, 2014
Michelle
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Feb 04, 2015
Linda Dobinson
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May 06, 2015
Meenu
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Oct 07, 2015
Zahara Cerise cares about alien existential angst
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Jan 23, 2016
Christine PNW
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Jan 24, 2016
John’aLee
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Apr 07, 2016
Cascades
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Nov 22, 2017
Dessi
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May 03, 2018
Leslie
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Jul 05, 2018
Jen
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Oct 29, 2018
Hillary
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Dec 09, 2019
Kathryn Guare
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Jan 30, 2020
Infosifter
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Andrea AKA Catsos Person
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