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Paperback / ISBN-13: 9781844088843

Price: £9.99

ON SALE: 22nd November 2012

Genre: Fiction & Related Items / Classic Fiction (pre C 1945)

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Pretty, impecunious Mary Preston, newly arrived as a guest of her Aunt Agnes at the magnificent wooded estate of Rushwater, falls head over heels for handsome playboy David Leslie. Meanwhile, Agnes and her mother, the eccentric matriarch Lady Emily, have hopes of a different, more suitable match for Mary. At the lavish Rushwater dance party, her future happiness hangs in the balance . . .

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If you like Nancy Mitford you'll love this
Elle Decoration
If you like Nancy Mitford you'll love this
Elle Decoration
Charming, very funny indeed. Angela Thirkell is perhaps the most Pym-like of any twentieth-century author, after Pym herself.
Alexander McCall Smith
Charming, very funny indeed. Angela Thirkell is perhaps the most Pym-like of any twentieth-century author, after Pym herself
Alexander McCall Smith
Appealing.
Glasgow Sunday Herald
A witty romantic comedy and a warm and inviting piece of social satire from this sharply observant and popular writer
Good Book Guide
With touches of Nancy Mitford, Barbara Pym and PG Wodehouse, Angela Thirkell's sparkling prose recounts misunderstandings and mishaps in a particularly English way.
Spectator
A witty romantic comedy and a warm and inviting piece of social satire from this sharply observant and popular writer
Good Book Guide