![Cover Art for 9780881846010, Cheerfulness Breaks in by Angela Mackail Thirkell](https://cdn.booko.info/covers/e070514d17dcbfb5/v/600.jpeg)
ISBN: | 9789997532350 |
Publisher: | Knopf |
Published: | 1 January, 1941 |
Format: | Hardcover |
Editions: |
9 other editions
of this product
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- A Double Affair
- August Folly
- Before Lunch
- Before Lunch
- Cheerfulness Breaks in
- Close Quarters
- County Chronicle
- Enter Sir Robert
- Growing Up
- Growing up
- Happy Returns
- High Rising
- Jutland Cottage
- Love Among the Ruins
- Love at All Ages
- Marling Hall
- Miss Bunting
- Never Too Late
- Northbridge Rectory
- Peace Breaks Out
- Pomfret Towers
- Private Enterprise
- Summer Half
- The Brandons
- The Demon in the House
- The Duke's Daughter
- The Headmistress
- The old bank house
- Three Score and Ten
- What Did It Mean?
- Wild Strawberries
It is 1939 and the peaceful Barsetshire village of the Brandons and their neighbours is due for dramatic change - a London school is to be evacuated to Barsetshire. The village rallies round to supply huge numbers of cockney children with rabbit stew and the local characters are seen in their true colours. There are problems of black-outs, staffing a military hospital, stretching food supplies and - with the arrival of some extraordinary refugees - attempting to keep peace in the rural heartland. Despite everything, life - and love - continue in their own sweet way...
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