Growing up

A brilliant comedy of manners, this book does not depend on a plot, but on the people who make up a small village in wartime, whether it is the former great persons, or the stationmaster, the convalescent service personnel, mostly soldiers billetted on a stately home now requisitioned as a hospital, and their anxieties, loves and hopes during World War II. Utterly hilarious, compassionate, and satirical by turns, this book must be one of the best of Thirkell's Barsetshire series.

Year

1943

Publisher

Knopf

Editions

1

ISBN

9789997532435

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