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Wild Strawberries
- Author
- Angela Thirkell
- Narrator
- Hilary Neville
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Publish Date
- 9 April 2015
- Run Time
- 7 hours 35 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Critics Review
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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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If you like Nancy Mitford you'll love this
Elle Decoration
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A witty romantic comedy and a warm and inviting piece of social satire from this sharply observant and popular writer
Good Book Guide
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With touches of Nancy Mitford, Barbara Pym and PG Wodehouse, Angela Thirkell's sparkling prose recounts misunderstandings and mishaps in a particularly English way.
Spectator
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Details
- Author
- Angela Thirkell
- Narrator
- Hilary Neville
- Duration
- 7 hours 35 minutes
- Release Date
- 9 April 2015
- ISBN
- 9781405533348
- 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
Pretty, impecunious Mary Preston, newly arrived as a guest of her Aunt Agnes at the magnificent wooded estate of Rushwater, falls head over heels for handsome playboy David Leslie. Meanwhile, Agnes and her mother, the eccentric matriarch Lady Emily, have hopes of a different, more suitable match for Mary. At the lavish Rushwater dance party, her future happiness hangs in the balance . . .
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