Daisy Ashford

Posy Simmonds

Lucy Mangan

I adore The Young Visiters, with its delightful voice and exuberant spellings... A blissful book

Funny and touching... one of my favourite comfort reads

If you haven’t read The Young Visiters before you’re in for a treat. Mr Salteena will make you laugh on even the grimmest of days

A total one off, a magic book that has been in the shelves almost all my life and which I go back to with a thrill every decade to so to remind myself why I love it so much

Wonderful… A forgotten gem of a book but so influential in so many ways

One of the most humorous books in literature

[The Young Visiters is] a serious society novel, and takes itself hugely seriously. It ends up being an unwitting parody not only of literature, but of adults as a class of people

[An] extraordinary work… [and an] elegant little edition

A romantic and comic gem from a precocious Victorian nine-year-old that has charmed readers for a century 
 
The Young Visiters is a comic masterpiece that has delighted generations of readers since it was first published in 1919. A classic story of life and love in later Victorian England as seen from the nursery window, it was written in 1890 by nine-year-old Daisy Ashford. 
 
It all starts when Alfred Salteena, who is 'not quite the right side of the blanket', takes young Ethel Montacue to stay with his friend Bernard Clarke... Daisy Ashford has an exquisite eye for matchmaking and manners in English society, and her tale, with its hilarious observation and idiosyncratic spelling, is as irresistible today as it ever was. 
 
This edition of The Young Visiters is illustrated with drawings by Posy Simmonds which are as enchanting and witty as the story. The text has been transcribed from the original manuscript and includes J.M. Barrie's famous preface to the first edition.

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**I adore The Young Visiters, with its delightful voice and exuberant spellings... A blissful book**

Funny and touching... one of my favourite comfort reads

**If you haven’t read The Young Visiters before you’re in for a treat. Mr Salteena will make you laugh on even the grimmest of days**

**I adore The Young Visiters, with its delightful voice and exuberant spellings... A blissful book**

Funny and touching... one of my favourite comfort reads

**If you haven’t read The Young Visiters before you’re in for a treat. Mr Salteena will make you laugh on even the grimmest of days**

**I adore The Young Visiters, with its delightful voice and exuberant spellings... A blissful book**

Funny and touching... one of my favourite comfort reads

**If you haven’t read The Young Visiters before you’re in for a treat. Mr Salteena will make you laugh on even the grimmest of days**

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