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The Demon in the House

- Volume 2

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  • Engelsk
  • 218 sider

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In 1930s England, a beleaguered mother frets over her twelve-year-old's "skirmishes with the grown-up world and his schoolmasters . . . amusingly told" (Kirkus Reviews).

Laura Morland loves her son, Tony, unconditionally . . . even when he's talking everyone's ear off, accidentally breaking a window, shelling peas in the bathtub, or desperately trying to convince her to buy him a bicycle--the thought of which terrifies her. And of course Laura cherishes their time together when Tony's home on break, while secretly counting the minutes until he goes back to school . . .

This twentieth-century tale set in Anthony Trollope's beloved Barsetshire is a lighthearted and sharp-witted look at the life of the upper class in prewar England, and a funny portrait of the fraught relationship between a long-suffering mother and a demanding, rambunctious, and occasionally infuriating twelve-year-old boy.

Praise for Angela Thirkell and the Barsetshire novels

"Thirkell writes in a charmingly easy and intimate style." --The New York Times

"[Thirkell's] writing celebrates the solid parochial English virtues of stiff-upper-lippery, good-sportingness, dislike of fuss, and low-key irony. . . . Light, witty, easygoing books." --The New Yorker

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Detaljer
  • SprogEngelsk
  • Sidetal218
  • Udgivelsesdato24-12-2024
  • ISBN139781504092876
  • Forlag Open Road Media
  • FormatPaperback
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