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Mollie Panter-Downes
It's a summer's day in 1946. The English village of Wealding is no longer troubled by distant sirens, yet the rustling coils of barbed wire are a reminder that something…
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This collection, first published in The New Yorker, contains ten stories describing aspects of British life in the years after the war.
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Explores many aspects of English domestic life during the war including separation, sewing parties, fear, evacuees sent to the country, obsession with food, and the social revolutions of wartime.
A hymn to England and a vanished way of life, a portrait of the aftermath of war.
Published in 1931, Mollie Panter-Downes’s book explores the different echelons of the increasingly self-conscious middle class and the ways in which the tensions and nuances of vocabulary, dress, occupation, politics…
Includes several short stories that explore different aspects of English domestic life during the war: about separation, sewing parties, fear, evacuees sent to the country, obsession with food, and the…
