SYNOPSES OF BOOKS
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NORTHBRIDGE RECTORY
Hamish Hamilton edition Notes from the dust jacket of the 1941 novel Northbridge Rectory by Angela Thirkell. In her latest book Mrs. Thirkell is, if we may so express ourselves, more Thirkell-ish than ever. As escape from the war appears to be impossible, she continues her ” Barsetshire War Survey’ in a novel which has…
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WILD STRAWBERRIES
A short synopsis of the novel Wild Strawberries by Angela Thirkell. The book is currently published by Virago Modern Classics and available in Paperback, eBook or downloadable Audiobook. ‘Charming, very funny indeed. Angela Thirkell is perhaps the most Pym-like of any twentieth-century author, after Pym herself’ Alexander McCall Smith Pretty, impecunious Mary Preston, newly arrived…
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O, THESE MEN, THESE MEN!
Hamish Hamilton edition Notes from the dust jacket of the 1935 novel “O, These Men, These Men!” by Angela Thirkell. WHEN Caroline Danvers left her impossible husband and, having nowhere else to go, took refuge with his father and mother, she believed that life held very little more of pleasantness in store for her. She…
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THE DEMON IN THE HOUSE
A synopsis of the novel The Demon In The House by Angela Thirkell. Hamish Hamilton This is the frightfully frustrating story of Tony Morland who first appeared in High Rising. A sweeter demon doesn’t exist than this 12-year old with a gift for disconcerting remarks and getting what he wants from his mother. Boys will…
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HIGH RISING
A brief synopsis of the 1933 novel High Rising, by Angela Thirkell. The book was the first in a long running series of Thirkell novels based in Anthony Trollope’s fictional Barsetshire. MRS. THIRKELL had already made a considerable reputation with her book of reminiscences, Three Houses, when she delighted thousands of novel readers with Ankle…
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LOVE AT ALL AGES
A synopsis of Love At All Ages by Angela Thirkell. Images and text are from the original dust jacket of the book published in 1959 by Hamish Hamilton. Old and new Barsetshire Characters ANGELA THIRKELL’s latest Barsetshire chronicle brings us up to date with the lives of many of the county’s favourite older characters as…
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THE OLD BANK HOUSE
A synopsis of the 1949 novel, The Old Bank House by Angela Thirkell. The changing face of Barsetshire! The face of Barsetshire is changing, and the fate of the Old Bank House, Miss Sowerby’s attractive eighteenth-century home in the High Street at Edgewood, neatly symbolises what is happening to the county as a whole. Miss…
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ENTER SIR ROBERT
A short synopsis of Enter Sir Robert, a Barsetshire novel by Angela Thirkell. It was published in 1955. Mrs. Thirkell’s latest Barsetshire book might be called A Novel without a Hero’, for her heroine, the youngest daughter of our old friend Lady Graham, though she has many admirers, is quite unconscious of them. Readers will…
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THREE SCORE AND TEN
Three Score and Ten, the 29th Barsetshire novel by Angela Thirkell. It was published in 1961. Original dust jacket notes of publishers Hamish Hamilton Angela Thirkell’s 29th Barsetshire novel was left unfinished on her death*. Anxious that no fragment of these county chronicles should be lost, C. A. Lejeune, who had often discussed the various…
