One Fine Day: Intro and thoughts on reading.

[Tania, Gloucestershire Wild Daffodil.]

Mollie Panter-Downes (25 August 1906 – 22 January 1997) was a British novelist and columnist for The New Yorker. Aged sixteen, she wrote The Shoreless Sea which became a bestseller and was serialised in The Daily Mirror. One Fine Day is a circadian novel (takes place over one day), and was published in 1947; it is probably her best known novel.

[Tania, Gloucestershire Wild Daffodil.]

Who is planning on reading this one?

[Elke]

I will! I have been looking forward to this one ever since I read her book of stories Good Evening, Mrs Craven: The Wartime Stories of Mollie Panter-Downes - and I luckily found a copy of one Fine Day that has been waiting for me to read it...

[Tania, Gloucestershire Wild Daffodil.]

Excellent news Elke. I'll be starting soon too.

[Jess]

I just finished it today. I was so surprised how much it reminded me of Mrs. Dalloway initially.

[Tania, Gloucestershire Wild Daffodil.]

It is quite reminiscent of Mrs. Dalloway, though personally, I preferred this one.

I finally have a bit of time to read this. I love the description of Mrs Prout coming "to circulate dust", made me chuckle.

[Jess]

Tania wrote: "It is quite reminiscent of Mrs. Dalloway, though personally, I preferred this one.

I finally have a bit of time to read this. I love the description of Mrs Prout coming "to circulate ..."

I agree- though I'm tempted to try Mrs. Dalloway again. I bought a hardcover annotated version. The Annotated Mrs. DallowayIt's edited with an introduction and notes by Merve Emre. I've just leafed through it and it's full of photos, background information, and explanations. I wasn't familiar with Merve Emre. She's an associate professor of English at Oxford University and literary critic. Per the blurb "Merve Emre gives us an authoritative version of this landmark novel, supporting it with generous commentary that reveals Woolf's aesthetic and political ambitions- in Mrs Dalloway and beyond- as never before"

This along with Middlemarch are on my 2022 Reading Goal list.

[Tania, Gloucestershire Wild Daffodil.]

I have been thinking of a re-read. Your edition looks really good, though I'm tempted by a Chiltern Classic edition that is coming out.

[Tania, Gloucestershire Wild Daffodil.]

This line made me chuckle, "The fingerposts had been conscientiously removed early in the war in case it should prove vial to German strategy to learn how many hedges their tanks would have to hurdle to Grimsditch or Barrow."

[Elke]

I have to admit I had every intention of reading this with the group but the right mood never hit me. I didn't want to force it and have that effect my enjoyment.