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Deze serie neemt lezers mee naar de jaren '30 en '40 en vertelt over het leven en de escapades van een geestige schrijfster. Het biedt een geestige en inzichtelijke kijk op de uitdagingen en absurditeiten van het dagelijks leven in pre-oorlogs en oorlogs Engeland. Volg haar reis door onverwachte wendingen die haar onafhankelijkheid en creativiteit op de proef stellen.

Miss Buncle's Book
Miss Buncle Married
The Two Mrs Abbotts

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    Miss Buncle's Book

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    • 12 uur lezen
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    The storyline of Miss Buncle's Book (1934) is a simple one: Barbara Buncle, who is unmarried and perhaps in her late 30s, lives in a small village and writes a novel about it in order to try and supplement her meagre income. This is a light-hearted, easy read, one of those books like Mariana, Miss Pettigrew, The Making of a Marchioness and Greenery Street which can be recommended unreservedly to anyone looking for something undemanding, fun and absorbing that is also well-written and intelligent. DE Stevenson had an enormously successful writing career: between 1923 and 1970, four million copies of her books were sold in Britain and three million in the States. Like EF Benson, Ann Bridge, O Douglas or Dorothy L Sayers (to name but a few) her books are funny, intensely readable, engaging and dependable. Miss Buncle's Book was the most popular of her novels because it has a completely original plot and a charming and delightful central character.

    Miss Buncle's Book
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    The Two Mrs Abbotts

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    Mrs Abbott is flustered at the thought of putting up a lady from the Red Cross, but is happily surprised when she turns out to be an old friend from her previous life as Miss Buncle, infamous writer. Of course, she's now far too busy with her children to write, not to mention helping out in the lives of the villagers.

    The Two Mrs Abbotts