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The Old Bank House
A Virago Modern Classic
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'Charming, very funny indeed. Angela Thirkell is perhaps the most Pym-like of any twentieth-century author, after Pym herself' - Alexander McCall Smith The Old Bank House is set in an ancient landscape surrounding Edgewood Rectory, where the Grantly family navigates the post-war world. The Rector and...
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The Old Bank House
Originally published in 1949, The Old Bank House is a charming and quintessentially British classic in Angela Thirkell's beloved Barsetshire series. Now available as a Virago Modern Classic.
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Description
'Charming, very funny indeed. Angela Thirkell is perhaps the most Pym-like of any twentieth-century author, after Pym herself' - Alexander McCall Smith
The Old Bank House is set in an ancient landscape surrounding Edgewood Rectory, where the Grantly family navigates the post-war world. The Rector and Mrs Grantly are bewildered by the new challenges confronting their eldest children: Eleanor, who longs for more excitement than her role at the Red Cross Library provides, and Tom, who struggles to readjust to student life at Oxford after his military service.
The plot thickens when their elderly neighbour Miss Sowerby sells her beloved Old Bank House to the self-made MP, Sam Adams. This former outsider finds himself at the heart of Barsetshire society. While Sam may initially dismiss Miss Sowerby's advice that the house needs a mistress, even a contented widower can be surprised by love.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780349018683
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 07 March 2024
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Virago Press Ltd
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 36.0mm
Width: 124.0mm
Height: 196.0mm
Weight: 350g
Pages: 448
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.
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