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He rules with a rod of iron – but one which manifests itself in hurt disbelief if anybody should ever disobey him, and genuine wonderment that anybody could wish to.

The nine or ten years which separate it from its immediate predecessor also separate today’s world from a world almost as lost as Atlantis.His own wife and younger daughter continually insult him, and hardly with great subtlety or wit, but he's such a buffoon that he never notices. The two families seem entirely separate, both in out look and lifestyle but as the spring and summer progress, circumstances and relationships bring them closer together. Their’s is a predominately happy household, and crucially they live without a father figure, Fergus Fraser having walked out years before. FIRST EDITION, lacks d/w, super octavo, hardcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. Blackett, when he realized his bride cared more for her cousin but would never back out of her wedding; sadly, she realized on her honeymoon that she was trapped in marriage to a pompous ass.

Men are admired/tolerated if they are bold and show more interest in outdoor pursuits or machines than in the opposite sex. His wife and daughters can't stand him but he doesn't realise that because he only sees what he wants to see and he is so far up himself with such a high opinion of his worth.I'm not a huge fan of Zoom but I do love that I'm finally able to see members of this group face-to-face, especially since many of them live in the UK. Framed by the advance of the Second World War, the subtle mechanics of marriage and love are laid bare through the observation of three of the marital options open to the mid-century woman: unmarried, separated, miserably married. Just try to get everyone's names straight in your head as soon as you can, and strip in for a nice ride through the emotional life of two very different families living in adjacent houses during a tense moment in history. A snap shot in time of society on the brink of change, bringing us closer to a time in history that has shaped us all for ever. But if she had we'd be left wondering, because of her unwillingness to have any character talk as if they were born later than 1870, what the hell was going on.

I was surprised by this book, as I didn't really know anything about EH Young and expected it to be fairly frivolous. Still although fashion has deserted this small corner of Upper Radstowe, these are houses with small gardens, basement kitchens and some – like the Frasers – have balconies. This was published in 1947, so it was historical fiction of a recent vintage, and the take on the times is refreshingly different from more recent historical fiction dealing with this period. The age for combatants, if she had the making of the conventions of war, would start at about forty-five and there would be no limit at the other end. The setting is Upper Radstowe – the setting of the majority of E H Young’s novels, a thinly disguised Clifton – the genteel, prosperous suburb of Bristol where she herself lived for a time.Anyway, Herbert is aghast and at the same time titillated he is living next to a woman with loose morals because she is separated/divorced from her husband and it must have been her fault since her husband left her, right? But I should also say I am an outlier – most of the reviews I read from bloggers (see below for links) were laudatory towards the book.