Wild Strawberries
A witty romp through English Country-house life at its most delightfully absurd. At Rushwater House in West Barsetshire, Lady Emily Leslie and her family are entertaining an assortment of house guests, hangers-on, and French monarchists. Amid a perfect welter of rapturous embraces and moonlight...
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A witty romp through English Country-house life at its most delightfully absurd. At Rushwater House in West Barsetshire, Lady Emily Leslie and her family are entertaining an assortment of house guests, hangers-on, and French monarchists. Amid a perfect welter of rapturous embraces and moonlight madness, a marriage is finally arranged. A glittering summer party provides an hilarious climax to the various intrigues.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781559213240 (1559213248)
Publish date: May 1st 2008
Publisher: Moyer Bell and its subsidiaries
Pages no: 227
Edition language: English
Series: Barsetshire 5 (#2)
Wild Strawberries was my first foray into the works of Thirkell and I believe I'll return to her work whenever I have a need for some fluffy interwar comfort read now that I've run out of E.F. Benson. This was a sweet story of a family that can only be described as ... chaotic. I guess, eccentric...
This was really good! I'd read High Rising last year and enjoyed it; enough to buy the next couple of books, obviously. But then they languished on the pile for awhile, because High Rising wasn't that good. But this was great! If you like family pandemonium (the kind where you sit back and wond...
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