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  • Wine of Honour

    by Barbara Beauchamp ...
    I wonder how many women today are back in their pre-war ruts. For how many was the war merely a temporary disarrangement and for how many others has it meant complete re-adjustment, an entirely new set of circumstances? This is a stupid thought for me to have when, even in my own case, I don’t know the answer.Helen Townsend and neighbour Laura Watson are unlikely friends as a result of serving ... Read more

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    "It's in my mind to put an end to this heathen wickedness that's stalking abroad through Gillenham. It's in my mind to terrify that evil man from his morrow's sinful doings.""We'll be going to Old Manor, then?""Not yet," said Mrs. Pye grimly. "We go first to the village. To rouse the women . . ."Professor Pounce arrives in the idyllic village of Gillenham, along with his sister-in-law, his nephew ... Read more

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  • Beneath the Visiting Moon

    by Romilly Cavan ...
    Tom came running up, pulling at his socks, so that there seemed something hiccuping, drunken, in his progress.“We have been cleaning up,” he said cheerfully.Mrs. Oxford winced. These poor children in their menial roles—And here came Sarah, with a smut on her cheek.Left in genteel poverty by the death of their father, the Fontayne siblings—Sarah, Philly, Christopher, and Tom—are shaken when their ... Read more

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  • A House in the Country

    by Ruth Adam ...
    "[I]f only we could make the manor subscribe a little bit towards her own upkeep," we fretted.But she was an aristocratic lady on our hands. All ideas for making her work for a living were wrecked on the fact that she was born to be served and not to serve.Six friends have spent the dark, deprived years of World War II fantasising-in air raid shelters and food queues-about an idyllic life in a ... Read more

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  • Rhododendron Pie

    by Margery Sharp ...
    It was indeed very difficult for the Laventie children not to be a little priggish.Ann Laventie, the youngest of three children in a long line of anti-social Sussex gentry, doesn't quite fit the mould of her intellectual, elegant, ultra-modern siblings Dick, an artist, and Elizabeth, a high-brow writer. Their father is scholarly and just wealthy enough to focus all his attention on reading and ... Read more

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  • Clothes-Pegs

    by Susan Scarlett, Noel Streatfeild ...
    "Do you live permanently in yellow evening frocks and court gowns, or have you anything else?"Annabel laughed shakily."Of course. My own clothes.""Then go and put them on. Lovely ladies who fall over their trains need cocktails to restore them. And that's just what I'm going to take you to have."Annabel Brown has taken a job in the sewing room at Bertna's, a high-end dressmaker, to help her family ... Read more

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  • Miss Carter and the Ifrit

    by Susan Alice Kerby ...
    To look at Miss Georgina Carter you would never have suspected that a woman of her age and character would have allowed herself to be so wholeheartedly mixed up with an Ifrit.It’s the final months of World War II and Georgina Carter, a single woman in her late forties with a drab job in the Censorship office, is convinced that nothing very shattering, nothing very devastating could happen to one ... Read more

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  • Spam Tomorrow

    by Verily Anderson ...
    When I asked the local chemist for lint and disinfectant, he felt it was only fair to allow the first-aid post to claim me. . . . Half a dozen V.A.D.s made a rush at me and treated my small abrasion as though my whole head had been blown off.From an impromptu wedding in the early days of World War II, to a bout with German measles in a hospital reminiscent of a medieval torture chamber, to ... Read more

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  • Nothing to Report

    by Carola Oman ...
    “I have told Rose that there will be a chauffeur for dinner,” she ended, frowning slightly at the cannibalistic sound of her sentence.Unmarried and nicknamed “Button” by her friends, Mary Morrison is a (very mildly) distressed gentlewoman. She no longer lives in her family home, but remains at the very centre of village life, surrounded by friends including carefree, irresponsible Catha, Lady ... Read more

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  • Summer Pudding

    by Susan Scarlett ...
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  • The Man in the Dark

    by Susan Scarlett ...
    "Yes, and then I'll go over Miss Kay's rooms with either you or the housekeeper.""There is no housekeeper, Miss."From his voice it sounded as if the housekeeper had been strangled and her body put in the cellar; it nearly made Marda giggle.James Longford, a wealthy former racing car driver with vision loss from an accident several years before, hires 26-year-old Marda Mayne as companion to his ... Read more

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  • Fanfare for Tin Trumpets

    by Margery Sharp ...
    He also made himself a weekly allowance of five shillings for cigarettes, stationery, amusements, shoe-repairs, razor-blades, laundry, toothpaste, hospitality and 'bus fares; and having thus cut his coat to his cloth, wore it in great content.The only thing he had not allowed for (and this in an author must surely be considered strange) was Love.Upon the death of his distant, unaffectionate father ... Read more

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