e.m. delafield
- books, Connie Willis, Dorothy L. Sayers, e.m. delafield, Jane Austen, Jerome K. Jerome, Mollie Panter-Downes, WWII
In Case of Emergency
I was lying in bed the other night wondering what five books I would take with me if I was stranded on a deserted island. As you do. Of course, this led me to wonder how I ended up on the island. Was my ship captured by pirates and after I spurned the captain’s advances, I was put ashore where I stood gallantly waving farewell with my trunk by my side? (the trunk has to be there to contain the books.) Was my ship broken apart on the rocks after a day and night of a storm such as was never known in that latitude before? I made it ashore…
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Thank Heaven Fasting by E.M. Delafield
I love the Provincial Lady series by E. M. Delafield. They are witty and clever and laugh out loud funny. Lately, I have been trying some of her other novels. I read Consequences a while ago. I found it so depressing I had trouble judging whether it was good or not. (I know it was good, the internet tells me so, it was just so sad.) Last week I read Thank Heaven Fasting. Thank Heaven Fasting is the story of Monica Ingram. When the book starts she is just about to “come out” in society with all that implies. “She could never, looking backwards, remember a time when she had not…
