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10 best books like William - An Englishman (Cicely Hamilton): The Return of the Soldier, Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, Lady Rose and Mrs. Memmary, Miss Ranskill Comes Home, Good Evening, Mrs Craven: The Wartime Stories of Mollie Panter-Downes, The Priory, The Village, Greenery Street, The Home-Maker, Few Eggs and No Oranges: The Diaries of Vere Hodgson 1940-45

The Return of the Soldier
AuthorRebecca West
ISBN0812971221
"I heard, amazed, his step ring strong upon the stone, for I had felt his absence as a kind of death from which he would emerge ghostlike, impalpable."

Two women await the return of a soldier, Chris, from World War I. His wife, Kitty, is an upper-class woman, still mourning the death of their child....
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
AuthorWinifred Watson
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...
Lady Rose and Mrs. Memmary
AuthorRuby Ferguson
ISBN1903155436
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...
Miss Ranskill Comes Home
AuthorBarbara Bower
ISBN1903155363
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...
Good Evening, Mrs Craven: The Wartime Stories of Mollie Panter-Downes
AuthorMollie Panter-Downes
ISBN0953478076
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...
The Priory
AuthorDorothy Whipple
ISBN1903155304
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...
The Village
AuthorMarghanita Laski
ISBN1903155428
'If anyone asked me to describe life in post-war Britain, ' commented Sarah Crompton in the Daily Telegraph, 'I would suggest they read The Village, a 1952 story of lovers divided by class that tells you more about the subtle gradations of life in the Home Counties and the cataclysmic changes wrought...
Greenery Street
AuthorDenis Mackail
ISBN1903155258
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...
The Home-Maker
AuthorDorothy Canfield Fisher
ISBN0897330692
Although this novel first appeared in 1924, it deals in an amazingly contemporary manner with the problems of a family in which both husband and wife are oppressed and frustrated by the roles they are expected to play. Evangeline Knapp is the perfect, compulsive housekeeper, while her husband, Lester,...
Few Eggs and No Oranges: The Diaries of Vere Hodgson 1940-45
AuthorVere Hodgson
ISBN0953478084
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...
The Victorian Chaise Longue
AuthorMarghanita Laski
ISBN0897330978


A small, but perfectly formed, chilling tale of psychological horror, from a very simple premise.

The GR summary, in its entirety, says, "Tells the story of a young married woman who lies down on a chaise-longue and wakes to find herself imprisoned in the body of her alter ego ninety...
Cheerful Weather for the Wedding
AuthorJulia Strachey
ISBN1903155274
This was absolute rubbish. Wicked too. The story was that although her wedding was but a few hours off, the bride couldn't make up her mind whether she should get married or run off with a previous lover, a dithering sort of person whose job took him on great adventures abroad. He had just turned up again...
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