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  • A House in the Country

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

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  • The Museum of Happiness

    par Ruth Adams ...
    The Museum of Happiness was established at the end of the last century, before the Great War. It held on through that, surviving on the glimmers of optimism that had flickered and gone out only to be re-ignited again. After that it offered free admission through the Great Depression and then charged a minimal amount per ticket. The second world war hit and the premises suffered shelling. But the ... En savoir plus

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  • Smokey the Very Loud Purring Cat

    Meet Smokey. An official international cat celebrity - as recognised by the Guniness World Records - due to her incredible loud purr. Smokey has appeared on American ABC News, NBC News, BBC World Service, Daybreak and in all the UK National newspapers. Through no fault of her own Smokey was passed through several homes before finalling settling with the Adams family. Through volunteering to help ... En savoir plus

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  • Wine of Honour

    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 ... En savoir plus

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  • Not at Home

    “I don’t mind being alone at all. I was often here alone in the blitz, and I was so frightened of the bombs that I quite stopped being frightened of burglars.”World War II has ended, residents are flooding back to London, and the housing shortage creates strange bedfellows. Elinor MacFarren—middle-aged spinster, botanical writer, and collector of prints and objets d’art—decides to rent part of her ... En savoir plus

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  • Babbacombe's

    par Susan Scarlett ...
    "I thought we were allowed to sit. I mean I thought it was the Shop Act or something that we had to have something to sit on."Jenny laughed."So they say, but it doesn't work out that way. You won't get sacked for sitting, but if you sit you'll get the sack."Lovely Beth Carson is just out of school and beginning her first job at Babbacombe's department store. She is pure as the driven snow, and ... En savoir plus

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  • Spam Tomorrow

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

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  • Table Two

    “It’s awful to think that there are nine of us here to-day at this table and in six months’ time we may all be dead,” said Miss Purbeck. “There were thousands killed last night, so the bus conductor told me.”“You certainly are our little ray of sunshine,” said Elsie scornfully.Marjorie Wilenski’s only novel, as biting and funny as Barbara Pym at her crankiest, follows an office of women ... En savoir plus

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  • Much Dithering

    par Dorothy Lambert ...
    The most striking thing about Much Dithering was its peacefulness. The few people who saw it from charabancs on morning or evening or circular drives said: "Isn't it peaceful?" or "Isn't it quiet?". And some said they thought it was a lovely place to be buried in, but while they were alive they preferred a place with more life, if you knew what they meant.The unlikely heroine of this delightful ... En savoir plus

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  • Peace, Perfect Peace

    par Josephine Kamm ...
    Instinctively Frances fumbled in her handbag for a torch before she faced the lights and the certainty of the lifted black-out. For some time now she had taken streetlighting for granted, but in her present sense of withdrawal she had forgotten.Set just after World War II, Peace, Perfect Peace is a poignant and humorous tale about women readjusting and rebuilding their lives after the upheavals of ... En savoir plus

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  • Rhododendron Pie. Illustrated

    par Margery Sharp ...
    Rhododendron Pie by Margery Sharp is a witty and charming novel that blends comedy, romance, and sharp social observation. Set in the English countryside, the story follows a cast of eccentric and memorable characters whose lives become entangled through misunderstandings, ambitions, and unexpected emotional connections. At the center of the novel is a young woman navigating the complicated world ... En savoir plus

    $1.99 CAD

  • Love Comes Home

    par Molly Clavering ...
    "Love romps home and sets the whole place by the ears, gets her own way in everything, and father and mother don't even notice they're being crossed!"Jane Cranstoun is having a lovely time with friends in England (and has just been proposed to by the charming John Marsh) when she is summoned home to Scotland to welcome her young sister Love, newly returned from being 'finished' in Paris. Keeping ... En savoir plus

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