Peace Breaks Out
A Historical, Humor, Funny book. Somewhat sad, in that it reminds one that peace (the end of the European...
The endearing thing about Angela Thirkell's Barsetshire is that it fundamentally never changes. The surface problems in shortages and transportation created by the war still continue, of course, but Barsetshire society has taken these in its stride and remained solidly, serenely its old unique charming self. The Biship and the Vicar still take tea with the gentry, tennis parties are squeezed into the land-farming routine, and by ingenious jitney arrangements there are even house parties as of old. For now the young men are returning from the service to their families, a little restless and let down in the sudden quiet of war's aftermath, but on the other hand eager to discuss their plans, and quick to make interesting discoveries among childhood playmates suddenly grown up. There's the deceased Miss Bunting's "favorite pupil," the sophisticated, irresistible charming older son of the adorable and wacky Lady Emily of...
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Somewhat sad, in that it reminds one that peace (the end of the European part of WWII), for many people in England, didn't mean much except further upsets. I hope no one was really quite as despondent about peace breaking out as Ms. Thirkell's characters are here, but I can't find it in me to blame them if they were, especially not... One of her milder stories, with romance between Martin and Sylvia (lovely but dull as they are) and Robin and Anne (sweet and pure), both almost derailed by the easily bored David, who spices things up a bit and gets his own happy ending. Read it for her rant about the results of peace, which is too long to quote here but captures the... VJ Day occurs in this book, and peace is even more annoying than the war. But three couples get engaged or married. The old rector Dr. Dale, dies at the very end.
