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Peace Breaks Out

English

By (author): Angela Thirkell

'You read her, laughing, and want to do your best to protect her characters from any reality but their own' New York Times

It is 1945. When peace breaks out at last, familiar wartime routines are interrupted, and the residents of Barsetshire seem as disconcerted as they are overjoyed.

As the country's eligible young men return home, life regains momentum: before long, everyone is spinning in a flurry of misunderstandings and engagements. The older generation, though, sees that the world will never be the same again.

Both wry and poignant, Peace Breaks Out was written in the tumultuous year in which it is set. It is an unforgettable portrait of the joy and misgivings felt in the final days of the Second World War.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 284g
  • Dimensions: 124 x 196mm
  • Publication Date: 20 Aug 2020
  • Publisher: Little Brown Book Group
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780349013428

About Angela Thirkell

Angela 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 Three Houses and in 1933 her comic novel High Rising - 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.

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