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Tuesday, 23rd "Late nights do not suit me. Try to think I look interestingly haggard but have to admit that Unkempt Blowsiness is fitter description". Before Bridget Jones there was Provincial Daughter - an intelligent woman juggling too little money with too many kids in rural obscurity.

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Provincial lady's daughter, 12 April 2003

By	Charlotte Austen (Melbourne, Australia) - See all my reviews

E M Delafield's Provincial Lady books are among my favourite books, so I couldn't resist this book written by Delafield's daughter. It is a gentle homage to the original books, written in a similar style and with the same self-deprecating humour. I laughed out loud several times at the trials of a 50's housewife in an English village. Nostalgia with a timeless quality. Many of the observations and situations are still relevant today.

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Imitation is the sincerest form of ... getting published, 14 Nov 2003

By	Simon Thomas "bookaholic" (Oxford/Somerset, UK) - See all my reviews

The joke in my title aside, this is a fantastic book for those who have loved EM Delafield's classic series. I would certainly not, however, recommend this book to those unfamiliar with The Diary of a Provincial Lady quartet.

Written by Delafield's (a corruption of De la Pasture) daughter as it is, it is admissable as an imitation. Somehow it would seem wrong for any one else to attempt this feat. The wit and irony, and comments on motherhood, are perhaps overplayed a little in an attempt to conform to the original, but nevertheless this is by no means a weak copy. The best compliment I can give is that it probably would have been published without the Delafield connection.

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A source of comfort and validation for mothers who work at homep=, 24 Mar 2007

By	Dr. Julia Kielstra "Julia" (Surrey) - See all my reviews

I work at home as a mother of 3 children under 8; this book served to remind me that I and women in similar situations to mine are, in many ways, no different from women who lived the same way or made the same choices we have in previous generations: we have the same struggles, worries, anxieties, sources of happiness, ambitions, and successes. I found this remarkably reassuring and comforting, especially as I recognized aspects of myself and many of my friends in Dashwood, despite the different historical and social backgrounds. If "I don't know how she does it" comforts mothers who work outside the home by validating their choices, "Provincial Daughter" should do the same for mothers who work at home.

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