Mariana

This is a funny, intensely readable ‘hotwater bottle’ which is a great Persephone favourite.This 1940 novel is the touching and often extremely funny story of a young English girl’s growth towards maturity in the 1930s. We see her at school, on holiday in Somerset, her attempt at drama school, her year in Paris learning dressmaking and getting engaged to the wrong man, and finally the arrival of Mr Right.