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by Angela Thirkell (Author)
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  • Paperback: 227 pages
  • Publisher: Moyer Bell Ltd ,U.S.; New Ed edition (14 Mar 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1559213248
  • ISBN-13: 978-1559213240
  • Product Dimensions: 21.3 x 14 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 87,918 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Action in Thirkells third Barsetshire novel centres around the extended family of the Leslies of Rushwater House. Lady Emily reigns behind a self-generated thicket of confusion and turmoil. There is no event so settled that Lady Emily cannot throw it into chaos at the last moment. Mr Leslie has been known to take off on a cruise to the 'Northern capitals of Europe' when it all becomes too much for him. Their daughter Agnes, a matriarch-in-waiting, has already produced three children despite a husband who seems to be perennially abroad on some unspecified activity. The French tenants and Mr Holt, the consummate social leech, are skilfully and humorously dealt with as is the household struggle for control between Housekeeper and Nannie. Even the small children, James, Emmy, and Clarissa are fully defined and serve to reveal the character of the adults as they interact with them. As usual we have the 'young man with crush on older woman', one match completed, and others set up for the future.

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Angela Thirkell, grand-daughter of pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones, was born in London in 1890. She began writing novels in 1930 to support herself and her sons. She produced a new book almost every year for the rest of her life. Her stylish prose and deft portrayal of human comedy in the imaginary county of Barsetshire have delighted readers for decades. She died in 1961 aged 70.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Barsetshire but not as Trollope knew it, 23 Oct 2008
By booksetc (London, UK) - See all my reviews
Wild Strawberries was published in 1934, and is very much of its era; there's a touch of the Provincial Lady in all its chaotic comings and goings and one reader wrote of Thirkell's 'Wodehousian' management of her characters. To be honest, she falls short of EM Delafield and way, way short of Wodehouse and her humour today strikes me as rather dated and heavy-handed. But this would be an engaging read during a summer afternoon with a jug of Pimms on hand (but preferably from a foxed and musty-smelling old Penguin to achieve the full nostalgic effect).
This was escapism for your grandmother's generation, no doubt borrowed from Boots' library during the years when one world war was too vivid a memory and we were hurtling too fast headlong into the next. And it's still worth reading, if only for Thirkell's description of a lunch date between an oblivious, self-satisfied young man and two jealous young women scratchily scoring points off each other ,,, just as vividly funny today as when it was written.
Thirkell was extraordinarily well-connected; grand-daughter of Burne-Jones, cousin to Baldwin and Kipling; fans of Persephone Books might be familiar with her brother Denis Mackail who wrote Greenery Street.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Well satisfied, 10 April 2009
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The book was bought for an elderly lady who was very pleased with the content and condition and prompt delivery.
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