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''You read her, laughing, and want to do your best to protect her characters from any reality but their own'' New York Times

It''s the summer of 1947, and peacetime has brought new challenges to Barsetshire. Beliers Priory, once a military hospital during the War, has now become a flourishing preparatory school for boys run by Leslie and Philip Winter.

When Charles Belton is hired as the new school master, six young people are thrown together in a web of flirtations and misunderstandings: Charles and his elder brother, Naval Captain Freddy Belton; Susan Dean, now Red Cross Depot Librarian, and her glamorous sister Jessica, an actress in thrall to the theatre; pragmatic Lucy Marling and her brother Oliver. And with the old social order in ruins, the scene is set for a delicious summer of comic - and romantic - possibilities.

Love Among the Ruins is a delightful, clever and wryly poignant classic, and the 17th novel in Angela Thirkell''s

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    A Paperback by Angela Thirkell

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      Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/07/2024
      ISBN13: 9780349018652, 978-0349018652
      ISBN10: 349018650
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      Book Synopsis

      ''You read her, laughing, and want to do your best to protect her characters from any reality but their own'' New York Times

      It''s the summer of 1947, and peacetime has brought new challenges to Barsetshire. Beliers Priory, once a military hospital during the War, has now become a flourishing preparatory school for boys run by Leslie and Philip Winter.

      When Charles Belton is hired as the new school master, six young people are thrown together in a web of flirtations and misunderstandings: Charles and his elder brother, Naval Captain Freddy Belton; Susan Dean, now Red Cross Depot Librarian, and her glamorous sister Jessica, an actress in thrall to the theatre; pragmatic Lucy Marling and her brother Oliver. And with the old social order in ruins, the scene is set for a delicious summer of comic - and romantic - possibilities.

      Love Among the Ruins is a delightful, clever and wryly poignant classic, and the 17th novel in Angela Thirkell''s

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