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The Headmistress
Virago Modern Classics (Book 378)
- Author
- Angela Thirkell
- Narrator
- Elaine Claxton
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Publish Date
- 17 September 2026
- Run Time
- 13 hours 32 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
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
- 13 hours 32 minutes
- Release Date
- 17 September 2026
- ISBN
- 9781405568463
- 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 latter years of the Second World War is a peaceful and gossipy place, but there has been one lively change. A girls' school, evacuated from London, has taken over Harefield Park. Miss Sparling seems to be the perfect headmistress: she dresses as a headmistress should and is an easy and erudite conversationalist. Her new neighbours like her and her pupils respect her, but there is something missing from her life; something which - though she never dreamt it when she arrived - perhaps Barsetshire can provide...
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