Publication

1940 - A.A. Knopf, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

80,500 words, Guess

Page Count

322 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • LCCPZ3.T3486 Be2
  • LCCPZ3.T3486 Be
  • LCCPR6039.H43 Be

Description

Middle-aged Catherine Middleton, married to an obtuse but endearing older man, is the still center of a swirl of two generations of "gentry" on the brink of WW II. The activities of youngsters and contemporaries go on around her and it is only gradually that one sees how, without conscious manipulation, nothing happens without her. The characters are subtly and humorously drawn.

Description

Lady Bond and Lord Pomfret are compelled to unite with the Middletons and the Stoners to stop the erection of a tea shop and garage on unspoiled Pooker's Piece. The young and the not-so-young all fall in love, not always with the right person, and sort out their affairs in a hilarious welter of cross-purposes.

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