Mrs. Tim Carries On
10 best books like Mrs. Tim Carries On (D.E. Stevenson): Henrietta Sees It Through: More News from the Home Front 1942-1945, Miss Ranskill Comes Home, The Provincial Lady in Wartime, Before Lunch, The Priory, Doreen, Few Eggs and No Oranges: The Diaries of Vere Hodgson 1940-45, Emily Davis, London War Notes, 1939-1945, Britannia Mews
Henrietta Sees It Through: More News from the Home Front 1942-1945
| Author | Joyce Dennys |
| ISBN | 1608195163 |
World War II is now in its third year and although nothing can dent the unwavering patriotism of Henrietta and her friends, everyone in the Devonshire village has their anxious moments. Henrietta takes up weeding and plays the triangle in the local orchestra to take her mind off things; the indomitable...
| Author | Barbara Bower |
| ISBN | 1903155363 |
Published in 1946, under her married name, Barbara Bower.
Description: Tells the tale of a woman who goes on a cruise and is swept overboard. She lives for three years on a desert island before being rescued by a destroyer in 1943. When she returns to England it seems to her to have gone mad: she...
| Author | E.M. Delafield |
| ISBN | 0897332105 |
These highly acclaimed, delightful novels are written in diary form by the Provincial Lady, who lives in a country house with her husband, two children, the children's French governess, Cook and a few assorted helpers. The era of the 1930s is wittily and shrewdly recreated with amusing illustrations.World...
| Author | Angela Thirkell |
| ISBN | 1559213221 |
Middle-aged Catherine Middleton, married to an obtuse but endearing older man, is the still center of a swirl of two generations of gentry on the brink of WW II. The activities of youngsters and contemporaries go on around her and it is only gradually that one sees how, without conscious manipulation,...
| Author | Dorothy Whipple |
| ISBN | 1903155304 |
The setting for this, the third novel by Dorothy Whipple Persephone have published, is Saunby Priory, a large house somewhere in England which has seen better times. We are shown the two Marwood girls, who are nearly grown-up, their father, the widower Major Marwood, and their aunt; then, as soon as...
| Author | Barbara Noble |
| ISBN | 1903155509 |
Doreen's mother is torn. In World War 2 London, the blitz has begun. Almost all of Doreen's classmates have already been sent to safety in the country, but Mrs. Rawlings doesn't believe in separating children from their parents, even in wartime. But the bombings are growing progressively worse.
"Things...
| Author | Vere Hodgson |
| ISBN | 0953478084 |
Vere Hodgson worked for a Notting Hill Gate charity during the Second World War ; being sparky and unflappable, she was not going to let Hitler make a difference to her life, but the beginning of the Blitz did, which is why she began her published diaries on 25 June 1940: 'Last night at about 1 a.m. we had the...
| Author | Miss Read |
| ISBN | 0745143121 |
I bought lots of books written by "Miss Read" and she has written many, all set in the country. The name is anonymous but she was a school teacher who began writing after the second world war. 'Emily Davis' was a fellow teacher in the same school and they were the best of friends. After retirement they decided...
London War Notes, 1939-1945
| Author | Mollie Panter-Downes |
| ISBN | 0374190224 |
Mollie Panter-Downes not only wrote short stories (Good Evening,Mrs Craven: The Wartime Stories and Minnie’s Room: The Peacetime Stories) but also non-fiction ‘Letters from London’ for The New Yorker. She wrote her first one on September 3rd 1939; on May 12th 1945 she wrote her hundred and...
This novel is perfection. It is a brilliant, bountiful story with unforgettable characters, written with heart by an author whose expertise is both meticulous and fluid.
We follow the story of Adelaide Lambert (née Culver) from her young childhood years in the 1800’s through to the last...
| Author | Beverley Nichols |
| ISBN | 0881927295 |
This reprint of the third book in Nichols's Allways trilogy contains a new foreword by Bryan Connon, Beverley Nichols's biographer. Set in the English countryside, the hilarious memoir is as much about the author's love for plants as it is about the village in which he lived. The depictions of flowers...
