Vittoria Cottage
A Historical, Romance, European Literature book. Caroline was slightly taken aback (shocked would be much too strong...
Caroline Dering, a young widow, lives in Vittoria Cottage in Ashbridge, a small country town in rural England. Her son and daughter fall in love with the children of the local squire, while Caroline herself becomes interested in a handsome widower who has just moved to town. Unforeseen difficulties challenge the happiness of all involved until Caroline manages to untangle everything to the satisfaction of all.
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- Pages: 250 pages
- ISBN: 9780030802867 / 30802865
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Robert saw no graces in this post-war London. It seemed to him that there were no amenities, not even the ordinary little courtesies of everyday life. The houses were shabby and unpainted, there were ruins and rubble, there were crowds everywhere. It seemed to Robert that the difficulty of existing made existence hardly worth while the difficulty of obtaining a decent meal, of buying a pair of shoes, of getting your watch mended nobody cared whether you got what you wanted or not, take it or leave it was the general attitude. The difficulty of transport... Were going about it the wrong way Passing laws and trying to make people happy and good theres only one way in which it can be done and thats from inside outwards; starting with the individual and spreading outwards to others. Some people have power in them and could do a lot, others could just do a little, but everybody could do something even if they just made one house a happy place. D.E. Stevenson, Vittoria Cottage // Caroline was slightly taken aback (shocked would be much too strong a word to describe her feelings). It was difficult to know what to say to Widgeon. The whole affair seemed so topsy turvy, so typical of the topsy turvy conditions of modern life. She had tried to help her country by Growing More Food, and all she had got for the trouble involved was more trouble. She had received countless forms to fill up; she had been visited by inspectors who seemed to think it was within their province to be rude to her, and who treated her as if she were trying...
Oh yay... Endeavor Press has started to make Kindle editions of D.E. Stevenson books! There are already 4 new ones out. I am a happy, happy girl. I have read them all, but to have my own copies is bliss. I'm rather annoyed with myself that I think the last sentence is not perfect, but otherwise I loved this book. Such a charming story, with some really lovely laugh-out-loud moments, in spite of not being a comedy. You'll have read the description in others' reviews, so I'll just say that having just re-read the book I thoroughly enjoyed it once again. Caroline is the kind of person I'd like to know. I can see this being done as one of those...
