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I discovered them when I read about them - can't remember where, but they are based close to where I live and used to (still?) sell through a bookshop on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh. The first book I bought was O Douglas, Eliza for Common - actually not my favourite of her books, by any means. I prefer the Priorsford books
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I was looking for comfort reading. I needed something that enabled me to forget my "real" world.
At the same time, I was very much busy with the idea of Nicola Beauman and Alison Light that these mostly forgotten novels and women writers were telling us lots of things about life in the UK during the first part of the 20th century.
My two first orders were "Summer Term" by Susan Pleydell (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9...) because it seemed close to the Southbridge School in Angela Thirkell's Barset books, and "Pink Sugar" that was the exact comfort reading I needed then.
What surprised and enchanted me was a little slip of paper with some handwritten words wishing me a good reading. This is so rare today that I wrote back to thank them. And it made me a devoted reader - although books are expensive when they have to come all the way to France. But postage is expensive - more than the books!
Do not laugh when I say that I have kept this slip of paper!
Which was your first book?