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144p PERSEPHONE BOOKS ISBN 190315524X
WITH A PUBLISHER'S NOTE
This companion volume to Persephone Book No. 8 contains
ten stories describing aspects of British life in the years
after the war. 'Minnie's Room' itself is about a family
who are unable to believe that their maid wants to leave
them to live in a room of her own. An elderly couple emigrates
because of 'the dragon out to gobble their modest, honourable
incomes.' The sisters in 'Beside the Still Waters' grumble
because 'Everything is so terribly difficult nowadays.'
These 'acute, funny and poignant stories' (Daily Telegraph)
reveal 'an unerring observer, with a stunning gift for
economy of description' (The Times). Mollie Panter-Downes,
said the Spectator, 'is discomfortingly good at
anatomising the crudities and subtleties of snobbery -
but she is never unkind.'
The endpaper is a fabric bought at
John Lewis in the late 1950s. It is both traditional
and modernist, while the sombre colours suit the mood
of the stories.
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