Cheerful Weather for the Wedding
This sardonic and beautifully written novella about a family in Forster territory was first published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press in 1932. 'As delightful and perceptive today as it no doubt was seventy years ago: on her wedding day a girl knows she is about to make a...
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This sardonic and beautifully written novella about a family in Forster territory was first published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press in 1932. 'As delightful and perceptive today as it no doubt was seventy years ago: on her wedding day a girl knows she is about to make a serious mistake' (the Bookseller); 'a brilliant, bittersweet upstairs-downstairs comedy' wrote Shena Mackay in the Guardian. The author was a niece of Lytton Strachey and was well-known in Bloomsbury circles.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781906462079 (1906462070)
Publish date: June 1st 2009
Publisher: Persephone Books
Pages no: 119
Edition language: English
Hmm, I picked this up by chance, without knowing much about it. It is the story of a wedding party who receive a guest - a young man who still harbors feelings for the bride. So. amidst the stress of getting the family ready for the wedding - including a couple of boisterous schoolboys - the story t...
Terrible. Thank goodness it was short. ONE star rating but tricky amending atm.
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