Wild Strawberries: A Virago Modern Classic

by Angela Thirkell, Alexander McCall Smith (Introduction)

Overview

Pretty, impecunious Mary Preston, newly arrived as a guest of her Aunt Agnes at the magnificent wooded estate of Rushwater, falls head over heels for handsome playboy David Leslie. Meanwhile, Agnes and her mother, the eccentric matriarch Lady Emily, have hopes of a different, more suitable match for Mary. At the lavish Rushwater dance party, her future happiness hangs in the balance . . .

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781405516716
Publisher:	Little, Brown Book Group
Publication date:	11/22/2012
Series:	Virago Modern Classics , #379
Sold by:	Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	370,070
File size:	644 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.
Alexander McCall Smith is the author of over one hundred books on a wide array of subjects, including the award-winning The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. He is also the author of the Isabel Dalhousie novels and the world's longest-running serial novel, 44 Scotland Street. His books have been translated into forty-six languages. Alexander McCall Smith is Professor Emeritus of Medical Law at the University of Edinburgh and holds honorary doctorates from thirteen universities.

Editorial Reviews

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

If you like Nancy Mitford you'll love this—Elle Decoration

A witty romantic comedy and a warm and inviting piece of social satire from this sharply observant and popular writer—Good Book Guide

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

With touches of Nancy Mitford, Barbara Pym and PG Wodehouse, Angela Thirkell's sparkling prose recounts misunderstandings and mishaps in a particularly English way.—Spectator

Appealing.—Glasgow Sunday Herald

If you like Nancy Mitford you'll love this—Elle Decoration

A witty romantic comedy and a warm and inviting piece of social satire from this sharply observant and popular writer—Good Book Guide

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