Barsetshire in the war years. Growing Up is the story of ladies, gentlemen, and their irrepressible children keeping the war at bay in their country town. Trying to do their part as the Second World War ravages Europe, Sir Harry and Lady Waring open their estate to convalescing soldiers – bringing romance, drama, and subtle life lessons to the Warings’ young niece and her friends.
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You read her, laughing, and want to do your best to protect her characters from any reality but their own
Charming, very funny indeed. Angela Thirkell is perhaps the most Pym-like of any twentieth-century author, after Pym herself
The novels are a delight, with touches of E. F. Benson, E. M. Delafield and P. G. Wodehouse
