The Shuttle
10 best books like The Shuttle (Frances Hodgson Burnett): Work: A Story of Experience, Miss Buncle's Book, Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, Lady Rose and Mrs. Memmary, Miss Ranskill Comes Home, Miss Buncle Married, Cluny Brown, Some Tame Gazelle, Greenery Street, The Brandons
Alcott's concerns about social justice, women's work, domesticity, and community lie at the heart of this provocative novel.
In this story of a woman's search for a meaningful life, Alcott moves outside the family setting of her best known works. Originally published in 1872, Work is both an exploration...
| Author | D.E. Stevenson |
| ISBN | 0708908349 |
Barbara Buncle is in a bind. Times are harsh, and Barbara's bank account has seen better days. Stumped for ideas, Barbara draws inspiration from fellow residents of her quaint English village, writing a revealing novel that features the townsfolk as characters. The smashing bestseller is published...
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
Miss Pettigrew, an approaching-middle-age governess, was accustomed to a household of unruly English children. When her employment agency sends her to the wrong address, her life takes an unexpected turn. The alluring nightclub singer, Delysia LaFosse, becomes her new employer, and Miss Pettigrew...
| Author | Ruby Ferguson |
| ISBN | 1903155436 |
Sometimes the introduction (or foreword) to a book is a pointless bore, but it can also illuminate a book in a particular way that makes the reading experience more enjoyable. Candia McWilliam provides the foreword to this one and I highly recommend that you read it first, as it does set you up for what...
| 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...
In this charming follow-up to Miss Buncle's Book, readers will follow Barbara Buncle's journey into married life in a new town filled with fascinating neighbors...who may become the subjects of Barbara's next novel! Miss Buncle may have settled down, but she's already discovered that married life...
| Author | Margery Sharp |
| ISBN | 0060805781 |
Note: I see that when I originally posted this to my shelf (book was read in March) I forgot to include my little review. I was quite taken with Margery Sharp's writing and hope to read more:
Author's Quote added: "I absolutely believe it is fatal ever to write below your best, even if what you write...
| Author | Barbara Pym |
| ISBN | 1559212640 |
Barbara Pym is a master at capturing the subtle mayhem that takes place in the apparent quiet of the English countryside. Fifty-something sisters Harriet and Belinda Bede live a comfortable, settled existence. Belinda, the quieter of the pair, has for years been secretly in love with the town's pompous...
| Author | Denis Mackail |
| ISBN | 1903155258 |
PG Wodehouse described this novel as 'so good that it makes one feel that it's the only possible way of writing a book, to take an ordinary couple and just tell the reader all about them.'
Greenery Street can be read on two levels - it is a touching description of a young couple's first year together...
| 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),...
