{"product_id":"crewe-train-virago-modern-classics-9780349010021","title":"Crewe Train Virago Modern Classics","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDenham Dobie has been brought up in Andorra by her father, a retired clergyman. On his death, she is snatched from this reclusive life and thrown into the social whirl of London by her sophisticated relatives. Denham, however, provides a candid response to the niceties of ''civilised'' behaviour. CREWE TRAIN is one of Macaulay''s wittiest satires. The reactions of Denham to the manners and modes of the highbrow circle in which she finds herself provide a devastating - and very funny - social commentary as well as a moving story.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis bitingly funny, elegantly written comedy of manners is as absorbing and entertaining today as on the book''s first publication in 1967.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRose Macaulay is ripe for rediscovery * The Times *\u003cbr\u003eOne of her very \u003cb\u003ewittiest books \u003c\/b\u003e * Observer *\u003cbr\u003eA pleasure and a \u003cb\u003etriumph\u003c\/b\u003e -- Eric Linklater\u003cbr\u003eRose Macaulay, who is probably the cleverest of our novelists, has given us yet another of her\u003cb\u003e glittering novels \u003c\/b\u003e * Country Life *\u003cbr\u003eOne of the few authors of whom it may be said she adorns our century -- Elizabeth Bowen","brand":"Little, Brown Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48884010877271,"sku":"9780349010021","price":9.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780349010021.jpg?v=1722530026","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/crewe-train-virago-modern-classics-9780349010021","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}