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Growing up, by angela thirkell

As war drags on, Beliers Priory in East Barsetshire, home to Sir Harry and Lady Waring, becomes a convalescent hospital for soldiers as well as home to their niece Leslie, and Capt. Noel and Lydia Merton from West Barsetshire. In the meantime, Philip Winter meets Leslie, their relationship developing subsequent problems which are finally resolved. Romance proceeds apace "downstairs" as well as "upstairs", where a trio of followers is pursuing Selina, the housemaid, with eventually a most suitable conclusion. But the stationmaster whose son is a POW in Germany, Tommy Needham's amputated arm, and everyone's uncertainty about absent friends and relatives form sombre countrepoints to the general attitude of "soldiering on". As Lydia observes: they are "growing up."

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  • "As war drags on, Beliers Priory in East Barsetshire, home to Sir Harry and Lady Waring, becomes a convalescent hospital for soldiers as well as home to their niece Leslie, and Capt. Noel and Lydia Merton from West Barsetshire. In the meantime, Philip Winter meets Leslie, their relationship developing subsequent problems which are finally resolved. Romance proceeds apace "downstairs" as well as "upstairs", where a trio of followers is pursuing Selina, the housemaid, with eventually a most suitable conclusion. But the stationmaster whose son is a POW in Germany, Tommy Needham's amputated arm, and everyone's uncertainty about absent friends and relatives form sombre countrepoints to the general attitude of "soldiering on". As Lydia observes: they are "growing up.""@en
  • ""Well-loved by a legion of devoted readers, Angela Thirkell's modern Barsetshire chronicles are terrific comedies of manners, sparkling in a way both sophisticated and sweet. Her world of cultivated gentry and generous, probing comedy brings the tradition of Trollope into the 20th century. Her fictional stretch of English countryside is spirited with infatuations, endearments, cross-purposes -- in other words, with good people going about the business of life, irresistibly entertaining in their determination to misunderstand each other. 'Growing up,' first issued in 1944 and now appearing in paperback for the first time in two decades, is a story of ladies and gentlemen -- and their irrepressible children -- keeping the war at bay in and about the fabuous country town called Winter Overcotes.""@en

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  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Domestic fiction"@en
  • "Domestic fiction"
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  • "Humorous fiction"

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  • "Growing up : a novel"
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  • "Growing Up. A novel"@en
  • "Growing up; a novel"@en
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