The Foolish Gentlewoman by Margery Sharp

It's just after World War Two and a woman in her fifties welcomes a malicious cousin into her household.

Reading Update – 02/04/22

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Pepita by Vita Sackville-West

A biography about a Spanish half-gypsy dancer in the 19th Century and her illegitimate daughter Victoria.

Reading Update – 15/08/21

I was recently reading Spring Fever by P. G. Wodehouse but I found it a dud. The plot revolves around Lord Shortlands who wants to marry his cook, an American called Stanwood with a rich father who prohibits him from marrying Eileen a Hollywood actress, and his friend Mike who is determined to have Terry, …

Cordelia Underwood, or, The Marvelous Beginnings of the Moosepath League by Van Reid

This is a novel which is convoluted and magnificent. Parts of it are reminiscent of The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens, particularly the three original members of the Moosepath League, as well as the numerous adventures experienced by other characters. The novel is set in 1890's Maine (USA), starting in Portland and going to Wiscasset, …

Fenland Chronicle by Sybil Marshall

Fenland Chronicle is composed of two memoirs of the author's parents, taken from their memories in the late Victorian and Edwardian era's. The Fens are a low, marshy area in England. Sybil Marshall's father, Will En' (Edwards)/Bill 'Arry, reminisces about his schooling, upbringing, and working life. There are some very funny stories he relates including …