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.
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Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9780099529330Number of pages: 432Weight: 298 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 26 mm
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Her character drawing is perfection,and her sense of fun too subtle to permit quotationChipper 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 melodramaStella Gibbons...an exception to that old canard: women can't make us laughThe Jane Austen of the 20th centuryStella is stellar
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