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Pomfret Towers, Barsetshire seat of the earls of Pomfret, was constructed, with great pomp and want of concern for creature comforts, in the once-fashionable style of Sir Gilbert Scott's St Pancras station. It makes a grand setting for a house party at which gamine Alice Barton and her brother Guy are honoured guests, mixing with the headstrong Rivers family, the tally-ho Wicklows and, most charming of all, Giles Foster, nephew and heir of the present Lord Pomfret. But whose hand will Mr Foster seek in marriage, and who will win Alice's tender heart?
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This is Angela Thirkell at her best. She gives us an insider's look at the pomp, ceremony and general goings-on in a pre-World War II English county home. The competition between Phoebe's and Alice's mothers is intense. Both are published authors, and both are moving their daughters to best advantage. "Matrimonial score: two goals, one miss."
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Mrs. Rivers, an exceedingly succesful novelist, comes up short on several fronts. Her son and daughter test her wits and social acumen. It is all good fun for those not receiving the brunt of this comedy of manners. And Pomfret Towers is the quintessence of manners gone awry.
Thirkell's stylish prose and generous, yet acutely observant, comedy offers a feast of reading that is cultivated, nourishing, refreshing and restorative.
Angela Thirkell, granddaughter of pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones, was born in London in 1890. Related to Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, cousin to Rudyard Kipling, mother of Colin Maclnnes and Graham Mclnnes, Thirkell was one of the most famous comic novelists of her day. She died in 1961 just before her seventy-first birthday.
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- PublisherChivers P
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0862206197
- ISBN 13 9780862206192
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages320
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