Miss Bunting
- Author
- Angela Thirkell
- Narrator
- Elaine Claxton
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Publish Date
- 15 October 2026
- Run Time
- 12 hours 32 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
When Anne makes friends with Heather Adams, the gauche daughter of a nouveau riche entrepreneur, her mother is appalled. Miss Bunting, however, shows an instinctive understanding of the younger generation - perhaps, having lost so many of her former pupils to the war, she is more sympathetic to their needs. She may be a part of the old social order, where everyone knows their place, but is wise enough to realise that the war has turned everything on its head and nothing will ever be the same again - even in rural Barsetshire.
First published in 1945, Miss Bunting is a charming social comedy of village life during the Second World War.
Critics Review
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You read her, laughing, and want to do your best to protect her characters from any reality but their own
New York Times
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The novels are a delight, with touches of E. F. Benson, E. M. Delafield and P. G. Wodehouse
Independent on Sunday
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Charming, very funny indeed. Angela Thirkell is perhaps the most Pym-like of any twentieth-century author, after Pym herself
Alexander McCall Smith
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Details
- Author
- Angela Thirkell
- Narrator
- Elaine Claxton
- Duration
- 12 hours 32 minutes
- Release Date
- 15 October 2026
- ISBN
- 9781405568470
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Genre
- Classic fiction: literary and general, Family life fiction / Stories about family, Humorous fiction, Narrative theme: interior life / psychological fiction
Synopsis
Barsetshire in the war years. Miss Bunting, governess of choice to generations of Barsetshire aristocracy, has been coaxed out of retirement by Sir Robert and Lady Fielding to tutor their daughter Anne, delicate, sixteen years old, and totally lacking in confidence. <br><br>When Anne makes friends with Heather Adams, the gauche daughter of a nouveau riche entrepreneur, her mother is appalled. Miss Bunting, however, shows an instinctive understanding of the younger generation - perhaps, having lost so many of her former pupils to the war, she is more sympathetic to their needs. She may be a part of the old social order, where everyone knows their place, but is wise enough to realise that the war has turned everything on its head and nothing will ever be the same again - even in rural Barsetshire.<br>First published in 1945, <i>Miss Bunting</i> is a charming social comedy of village life during the Second World War.
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