Growing Up

by Angela Thirkell

Overview

Barsetshire in the war years. Growing Up is the story of ladies, gentlemen, and their irrepressible children keeping the war at bay in their country town. Trying to do their part as the Second World War ravages Europe, Sir Harry and Lady Waring open their estate to convalescing soldiers - bringing romance, drama, and subtle life lessons to the Warings' young niece and her friends.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780349007496
Publisher:	Little, Brown Book Group
Publication date:	11/03/2016
Series:	Virago Modern Classics , #369
Sold by:	Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	754,139
File size:	931 KB

About the Author

Angela Thirkell (1890-1961) was the eldest daughter of John William Mackail, a Scottish classical scholar and civil servant, and Margaret Burne-Jones. Her relatives included the pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones, Rudyard Kipling and Stanley Baldwin, and her grandfather was J. M. Barrie. She was educated in London and Paris, and began publishing articles and stories in the 1920s. In 1931 she brought out her first book, a memoir entitled Three Houses, and in 1933 her comic novel High Rising - set in the fictional county of Barsetshire, borrowed from Trollope - met with great success. She went on to write nearly thirty Barsetshire novels, as well as several further works of fiction and non-fiction. She was twice married and had four children.

Editorial Reviews

These novels were published in 1944 and 1945, respectively. Both are set in Thirkell's fictional English county of Barsetshire and relate the characters' emotional responses to the war.

Library Journal

Charming, very funny indeed. Angela Thirkell is perhaps the most Pym-like of any twentieth-century author, after Pym herself—Alexander McCall Smith

You read her, laughing, and want to do your best to protect her characters from any reality but their own—New York Times

The novels are a delight, with touches of E. F. Benson, E. M. Delafield and P. G. Wodehouse—Christopher Fowler, Independent on Sunday

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