Mrs. Miniver
8 best books like Mrs. Miniver (Jan Struther): The Little White Horse, Lent, Wild Strawberries, One Fine Day, Nella Last's War: The Second World War Diaries of 'Housewife, 49', Good Evening, Mrs Craven: The Wartime Stories of Mollie Panter-Downes, Terms & Conditions: Life in Girls’ Boarding-Schools, 1939–1979, Jambusters: The Women's Institute at War 1939-1945
| Author | Elizabeth Goudge |
| ISBN | 0142300276 |
In 1842, thirteen-year-old orphan Maria Merryweather arrives at Moonacre Manor, her family's ancestral home in an charmed village in England's West Country, and she feels as if she’s entered Paradise. Her new guardian, her uncle Sir Benjamin, is kind and funny; the Manor itself feels like home...
| Author | Jo Walton |
| ISBN | 0765379066 |
From Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award-winning Jo Walton comes Lent, a magical re-imagining of the man who remade fifteenth-century Florence—in all its astonishing strangeness
Young Girolamo’s life is a series of miracles.
It’s a miracle that he can see demons, plain...
| Author | Angela Thirkell |
| ISBN | 1559213248 |
Action in Thirkells second Barsetshire novel centres around the extended family of the Leslies of Rushwater House. Lady Emily reigns behind a self-generated thicket of confusion and turmoil. There is no event so settled that Lady Emily cannot throw it into chaos at the last moment. Mr Leslie has been...
| Author | Mollie Panter-Downes |
It's a summer's day in 1946. The English village of Wealding is no longer troubled by distant sirens, yet the rustling coils of barbed wire are a reminder that something, some quality of life, has evaporated. Together again after years of separation, Laura and Stephen Marshall and their daughter Victoria...
Nella Last's War: The Second World War Diaries of 'Housewife, 49'
In September 1939, housewife and mother Nella Last began a diary whose entries, in their regularity, length and quality, have created a record of the Second World War which is powerful, fascinating and unique.
When war broke out, Nella's younger son joined the army while the rest of the family...
| Author | Mollie Panter-Downes |
| ISBN | 0953478076 |
For fifty years Mollie Panter-Downes' name was associated with "The New Yorker", for which she wrote a regular 'Letter from London', book reviews and over thirty short stories; of the twenty-one in "Good Evening, Mrs Craven", written between 1939 and 1944, only two had ever been reprinted - these very...
Terms & Conditions: Life in Girls’ Boarding-Schools, 1939–1979
| Author | Ysenda Maxtone Graham |
As we discover from Ysenda Maxtone Graham’s quietly hilarious history of life in British girls’ boarding-schools between 1939 and 1979, this was a not untypical reaction. Today it’s hard to grasp the casual carelessness and even hostility with which the middle and upper classes once approached...
Jambusters: The Women's Institute at War 1939-1945
The Second World War was the WI's finest hour. The whole of its previous history - two decades of educating, entertaining and supporting women and campaigning on women's issues - culminated in the enormous collective responsibility felt by the members to 'do their bit' for Britain. With all the vigour,...
