Cluny Brown

Author	Joyce Dennys
ISBN	1408802813

Spirited Henrietta wishes she was the kind of doctor's wife who knew exactly how to deal with the daily upheavals of war. But then, everyone in her close-knit Devonshire village seems to find different ways to cope: there's the indomitable Lady B, who writes to Hitler every night to tell him precisely...

Author	D.E. Stevenson
ISBN	0030074916

Here is a glimpse behind the scenes of an army post in Scotland in war time, without the constant borrowing of the tragedies of wartime Britain. Social-gossipy recording, pleasant, humorous, popular minutiac, of family and military backdrop. ""Mrs. Tim of the regiment"" carries on through 1940;...

Author	Elizabeth von Arnim
ISBN	1853816779

Approaching the watershed of her fiftieth birthday, Fanny, having long ago divorced Mr. Skeffington and dismissed him from her thoughts, is surprised to find herself thinking of him. While attempting to understand this unwelcome invasion, she meets, through a series of coincidences and deliberate...

Author	Angela Thirkell
ISBN	0786703628

This is one of Angela Thirkell's 13 novels set in Trollope's Barsetshire, and peopled with characters from the upper crust of society to the tyrants behind the green baize doors and the miscreants of Grumper's end. Here are the beautiful Mrs Brandon (before whom even the vicar blushes and stammers),...

Author	Dorothy Whipple
ISBN	1903155460

I read this massive chunk of a book in two sittings.
Dorothy Whipple is an amazingly understated writer. I am so thankful to Persephone books for re-releasing her work to a wider audience. She writes with wit, candor and seemingly light years ahead of her time. I have only read 2 of her other books but...