- Paperback: 294 pages
- Publisher: Virago Press Ltd; New edition edition (5 Aug 1993)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0860684318
- ISBN-13: 978-0860684312
- Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.8 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 283,114 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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When Miss Mole returns to Radstowe, she wins the affection of Ethel and of her nervous sister Ruth and transforms the life of the vicarage. This book won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1930.
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Miss Mole is one of the books I use, and return to again and again, as a map of how to be human. Miss Mole is a companion, a poor woman, the lowest of the low, but her sense of herself never falters. Her ability to find generous amusement both in irony and in plain fact sustains her through the ridiculous troubles which she manages to make for herself. But beyond amusement, the moral compass Miss Mole follows (however uncomfortable and inconvenient the route it may devise for her) through her cluttered, claustrophobic social landscape has its needle firmly stuck on the true, fierce North of genuine virtue.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
No, this isn't the only great novel of the last century. Admittedly, it's a slightly old-fashioned read for 1930, but the author's observations are never hackneyed. This is a novel of romance, where Miss Mole's witty heart beats for intellectual possibilities, as well as for conventional passion, but knowing full well that there's no eternally happy ending in life - there's a healthy dose of cynicism spooned-in throughout. Not content with having keen insights and a compelling narrative, EH Young wrote engaging lines with not a wasted word within. Do slow yourself down and enjoy this.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
The world aslant
31 May 2005
Format:Paperback
E. H. Young's delightful Hannah Mole is over forty, unmarried, and always on the run for new work as a companion, nanny, or housekeeper. Although proud of her work, she realizes her humorously sharp tongue and satirical perception of the world will always get her tossed from each new job; yet despite her hand-to-mouth circumstances, she keeps fairly happy by always amazing herself at the qualities and peculiarities of human nature. This much-loved, but little-known 1930 masterpiece, which details the return of Miss Mole to her favorite city of Radstowe (really Bristol) to care for a clergyman's family is told with an angularity and asperity befitting its great central character. Nothing in this novel is ever told straightforwardly, but always at a kind of slant like sunlight through spar; but this is the way Miss Mole herself views the world, and the result is a very comic and very intelligent novel by one of the most unjustly forgotten British novelists who might be best characterized (with her quirkiness and love of aphortism) as an early 20th-century George Meredith.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
A stunningly good novel
22 Dec 2008
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I read this book after reading "The Misses Mallet", which I thought was brilliant. "Miss Mole" is even better. It is a tour de force character study of a funny, intelligent woman. Miss Mole is employed as a housekeeper, and through her eyes we see the foibles of those with whom she comes into contact. It is a tragedy that this wonderful author is largely out of print.
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