Imprint: Vintage Classics
Published: 04/08/2011
ISBN: 9780099529330
Length: 432 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 26mm x 129mm
Weight: 298g
RRP: £9.99
Uprooted from war-torn London, Alda Lucie-Brown and her three daughters start a new life at Pine Cottage in rural Sussex. Unsuited to a quiet life, Alda attempts to orchestrate - with varying degrees of success - the love affairs of her neighbours. Her unwilling subjects include an Italian POW, a Communist field-hand, a battery-chicken farmer and her intelligent friend Jean.
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Published: 04/08/2011
ISBN: 9780099529330
Length: 432 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 26mm x 129mm
Weight: 298g
RRP: £9.99
Her character drawing is perfection, and her sense of fun too subtle to permit quotation
Chipper is the word: Gibbons's heroines are plucky, determined and quietly hedonistic. But she can do melancholy with the best of them, too, not to mention melodrama
Stella Gibbons…an exception to that old canard: women can't make us laugh
The Jane Austen of the 20th century
Stella is stellar