Growing Up
As war drags on, Beliers Priory in East Barsetshire, home to Sir Harry and Lady Waring, becomes a convalescent hospital for soldiers as well as home to their niece Leslie, and Capt. Noel and Lydia Merton from West Barsetshire. Romance proceeds apace "upstairs" as well as "downstairs," where a trio of followers is pursuing Selina, the housemaid, with eventually a most suitable conclusion. But the stationmaster whose son is a POW in Germany, Tommy Needham's amputated arm, and everyone's uncertainty about absent friends and relatives form somber counterpoints to the general attitude of "soldiering on." As Lydia observes: they are "growing up."
- Author
- Angela Thirkell
- Format
- hardcover
- Series
- Barsetshire
- Publisher
- Isis
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9780753168899
- Genres
- fiction, humor, historical
- Release date
- 2003
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