Close Quarters (The Barsetshire Novels)
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A widow goes house-hunting in Barsetshire in this witty, moving novel by an author of “grceful stories of upper-class English life”(The New York Times).One rainy summer, amid the social and cultural changes of postwar England, Mrs. Macfadyen wrestles with the loss of her beloved husband after just five years of happiness. Life has left her uprooted—bu where can she replant herself? The hunt for a new house (preferably not too close to her mother’s will involve everyone from friends and neighbors to an old suitor and the local clergy, but ultimately the decision—an her future—isup to her... Recreating Anthony Trollope’sfictional county and bringing it into the mid-twentieth century, Angela Thirkell tells a tale filled with heartache, humor, and sharp social observation.“Itis in [Mrs. Macfadyen’s fitful remembrance, quiet loneliness and gentle acceptance, that one realizes her author’ssense of the poetry in life, and her sympathetic ear for the nuances of pain.”—Th New York Times