Peace Breaks Out

by Angela Thirkell

Overview

'You read her, laughing, and want to do your best to protect her characters from any reality but their own' New York Times

When peace breaks out, it surprises and unsettles familiar wartime routines, and the residents of Barsetshire seem as disconcerted as they are overjoyed. Nevertheless, as the county's eligible young men return home, the social round regains its old momentum. Before long, everyone is spinning in a flurry of misunderstandings and engagements.

The older generation, though, sees that the world will never be the same again.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780349013428
Publisher:	Little, Brown Book Group
Publication date:	08/10/2021
Series:	Virago Modern Classics Series
Pages:	368
Product dimensions:	4.75(w) x 7.75(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Angela Thirkell (1890-1961) was the eldest daughter of John William Mackail, a Scottish classical scholar and civil servant, and Margaret Burne-Jones. Her relatives included the pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones, Rudyard Kipling and Stanley Baldwin, and her grandfather was J. M. Barrie. She was educated in London and Paris, and began publishing articles and stories in the 1920s. In 1931 she brought out her first book, a memoir entitled Three Houses, and in 1933 her comic novel High Rising - set in the fictional county of Barsetshire, borrowed from Trollope - met with great success. She went on to write nearly thirty Barsetshire novels, as well as several further works of fiction and non-fiction. She was twice married and had four children.

Editorial Reviews

Charming, very funny indeed. Angela Thirkell is perhaps the most Pym-like of any twentieth-century author, after Pym herself—Alexander McCall Smith

You read her, laughing, and want to do your best to protect her characters from any reality but their own—New York Times

The novels are a delight, with touches of E. F. Benson, E. M. Delafield and P. G. Wodehouse—Christopher Fowler, Independent on Sunday

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