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Before Lunch

Virago Modern Classics

By (author) Angela Thirkell
Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group, London, United Kingdom
Imprint: Virago Press Ltd
Published: 5th May 2016
Dimensions: w 129mm h 196mm d 23mm
Weight: 260g
ISBN-10: 0349007403
ISBN-13: 9780349007403
Barcode No: 9780349007403
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Synopsis
Jack Middleton likes to imagine himself a country squire. At weekends he retires to Laverings Estate with his wife, Catherine. He may be pompous, and they may seem ill-matched, but the couple are devoted to each other. When Jack's widowed sister, Lilian, and her two stepchildren arrive to spend the summer in the neighbouring house, he dreads the intrusion to his idyll: Daphne, capable and ambitious, is too lively for his taste, whereas her brother Denis, a composer, he finds a crashing bore. But their wit and good sense charm the residents of Barchester, and they win over Lord Bond with an impromptu Gilbert and Sullivan evening. Even Jack begins to thaw. Before long, Daphne and Lord Bond's son become attracted to each other, but each believes the other is attached to someone else. Can disaster be averted before she marries the wrong man? First published in 1939, Before Lunch is a sparkling comedy from Angela Thirkell's much-loved classic series.

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