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“dorothy lambert”

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  • Much Dithering

    by Dorothy Lambert ...
    The most striking thing about Much Dithering was its peacefulness. The few people who saw it from charabancs on morning or evening or circular drives said: "Isn't it peaceful?" or "Isn't it quiet?". And some said they thought it was a lovely place to be buried in, but while they were alive they preferred a place with more life, if you knew what they meant.The unlikely heroine of this delightful ... Read more

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  • All I Desire

    by Dorothy Lambert ...
    Hermia was discovering how inconveniently small the world was and wondered fretfully how it was that the very people she would have wished to avoid if she had remembered their existence should happen to inhabit the small and insignificant neighbourhood which she and Jeremy had selected for its remoteness from the world.Readers might also wonder at the odds of not one but two figures from romance ... Read more

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  • Staying Put

    by Dorothy Lambert ...
    Felicity plunged in with a torch and looked round. "Heavens! What a mess! How absolutely thrilling! We've actually been bombed, Mummy! Isn't it marvellous? Absolutely!"In the best tradition of village-goes-to-war novels like Angela Thirkell's Cheerfulness Breaks in or Ursula Orange's Tom Tiddler's Ground, Dorothy Lambert here shows us the quintessentially zany English village of Swansford dragged ... Read more

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  • Harvest Home

    by Dorothy Lambert ...
    "Well, I see it like this," returned Priscilla with great animation. "He needs help in saving his harvest. Well, the answer is-make a jolly Harvest Camp. Let's all get together, go down and camp in the park or the stables or any old place. I'll do the arranging. A mixed party, of course-'Come lasses and lads,' style-'Olde Englysshe' atmosphere-ye olde hay-wain-sun-bonnets?"Who could foresee the ... Read more

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  • Scotch Mist

    by Dorothy Lambert ...
    "I'll set my face against all female society, if that will reassure you. But," he added firmly, "Miss Fairlie is different. She'll give us no trouble; you can depend on that, Mrs. McCaig.'Mrs. McCaig looked at him with withering scorn. "I'm no' so sure. Have a care, Glenlochart."When Alison Fairlie, on holiday from her decorating job in London, lands at Glenlochart House, the family home of Neil ... Read more

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    by Molly Clavering ...
    "Old age really must be creeping upon me at last," said Susan Armstrong. "I find more and more that what I most enjoy is a quiet evening at home by the fire, with a book..."Susan Armstrong is savouring a quiet evening at home with husband Jed, but her peace is fleeting. A call from Jed's irritating cousin results in a visit from young Amanda, whose ace pilot husband is missing (and none too sorely ... Read more

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  • Love Comes Home

    by Molly Clavering ...
    "Love romps home and sets the whole place by the ears, gets her own way in everything, and father and mother don't even notice they're being crossed!"Jane Cranstoun is having a lovely time with friends in England (and has just been proposed to by the charming John Marsh) when she is summoned home to Scotland to welcome her young sister Love, newly returned from being 'finished' in Paris. Keeping ... Read more

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  • Dear Hugo

    by Molly Clavering ...
    When the time comes for you to retire, Hugo, if you want a quiet life, don't settle down in the country. Bury yourself in London or any really large city, and you can live like a hermit, but avoid the outskirts of a village. I am dazed by the ceaseless whirl of activities in which almost everyone in and round Ravenskirk is involved.Sara Monteith makes an ideal correspondent for Hugo Jamieson, ... Read more

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  • Rhododendron Pie

    by Margery Sharp ...
    It was indeed very difficult for the Laventie children not to be a little priggish.Ann Laventie, the youngest of three children in a long line of anti-social Sussex gentry, doesn't quite fit the mould of her intellectual, elegant, ultra-modern siblings Dick, an artist, and Elizabeth, a high-brow writer. Their father is scholarly and just wealthy enough to focus all his attention on reading and ... Read more

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  • The Stone of Chastity

    by Margery Sharp ...
    "It's in my mind to put an end to this heathen wickedness that's stalking abroad through Gillenham. It's in my mind to terrify that evil man from his morrow's sinful doings.""We'll be going to Old Manor, then?""Not yet," said Mrs. Pye grimly. "We go first to the village. To rouse the women . . ."Professor Pounce arrives in the idyllic village of Gillenham, along with his sister-in-law, his nephew ... Read more

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  • Summer Pudding. Illustrated

    by Noel Streatfeild ...
    Noel Streatfeild's Summer Pudding is a captivating novel that explores themes of love, ambition, and the complexities of family relationships. Known for her keen psychological insight and vivid storytelling, Streatfeild crafts a compelling narrative set in the shifting social landscape of mid-20th-century Britain.The novel follows a group of interconnected characters who find themselves spending a ... Read more

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  • Nothing to Report

    by Carola Oman ...
    “I have told Rose that there will be a chauffeur for dinner,” she ended, frowning slightly at the cannibalistic sound of her sentence.Unmarried and nicknamed “Button” by her friends, Mary Morrison is a (very mildly) distressed gentlewoman. She no longer lives in her family home, but remains at the very centre of village life, surrounded by friends including carefree, irresponsible Catha, Lady ... Read more

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