{"product_id":"love-among-the-ruins-paperback","title":"Love Among the Ruins - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAngela Thirkell\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'You read her, laughing, and want to do your best to protect her characters from any reality but their own' \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt's the summer of 1947, and peacetime has brought new challenges to Barsetshire. Beliers Priory, once a military hospital during the War, has now become a flourishing preparatory school for boys run by Leslie and Philip Winter. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen Charles Belton is hired as the new school master, six young people are thrown together in a web of flirtations and misunderstandings: Charles and his elder brother, Naval Captain Freddy Belton; Susan Dean, now Red Cross Depot Librarian, and her glamorous sister Jessica, an actress in thrall to the theatre; pragmatic Lucy Marling and her brother Oliver. And with the old social order in ruins, the scene is set for a delicious summer of comic - and romantic - possibilities. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLove Among the Ruins \u003c\/i\u003eis a delightful, clever and wryly poignant classic, and the 17th novel in Angela Thirkell's beloved Barsetshire series. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'You read her, laughing, and want to do your best to protect her characters from any reality but their own' \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt's 1947, and peacetime has brought new challenges to Barsetshire. Beliers Priory, once a military hospital during the War, has now become a flourishing prep school for boys run by Leslie and Philip Winter. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen Charles Belton is hired as the new schoolmaster, the scene is set for a tangle of flirtations and misunderstandings as six young people are thrown together: Charles and his elder brother, Captain Freddy Belton; Susan Dean, now Red Cross Depot Librarian, and her glamorous sister Jessica, an actress in thrall to the theatre; pragmatic Lucy Marling and her brother Oliver. And with the old social rules in ruins, it's bound to be a delicious summer of comic - and romantic - possibilities. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e[thumbnails of CHEERFULNESS BREAKS IN, MARLING HALL, GROWING UP, THE HEADMISTRESS, MISS BUNTING, PEACE BREAKS OUT]\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAngela 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\u003ci\u003e Three Houses\u003c\/i\u003e, and in 1933 her comic novel \u003ci\u003eHigh Rising\u003c\/i\u003e - 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.4 x 7.4 x 4.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 30, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51763419447584,"sku":"9780349018652","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/48cd364c54312254ac891204821ee5ce.webp?v=1780235065","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/love-among-the-ruins-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}