{"product_id":"miss-bunting-virago-modern-classics-9780349007564","title":"Miss Bunting Virago Modern Classics","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBarsetshire in the war years.  Miss Bunting, governess of choice to generations of Barsetshire aristocracy, has been coaxed out of retirement by Sir Robert and Lady Fielding to tutor their daughter Anne, delicate, sixteen years old, and totally lacking in confidence.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen Anne makes friends with Heather Adams, the gauche daughter of a nouveau riche entrepreneur, her mother is appalled. Miss Bunting, however, shows an instinctive understanding of the younger generation - perhaps, having lost so many of her former pupils to the war, she is more sympathetic to their needs. She may be a part of the old social order, where everyone knows their place, but is wise enough to realise that the war has turned everything on its head and nothing will ever be the same again - even in rural Barsetshire.\u003cbr\u003eFirst published in 1945, \u003ci\u003eMiss Bunting\u003c\/i\u003e is a charming social comedy of village life during the Second World War.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYou read her, laughing, and want to do your best to protect her characters from any reality but their own * New York Times *\u003cbr\u003eThe novels are a delight, with touches of E. F. Benson, E. M. Delafield and P. G. Wodehouse -- Christopher Fowler * Independent on Sunday *\u003cbr\u003eCharming, very funny indeed. Angela Thirkell is perhaps the most Pym-like of any twentieth-century author, after Pym herself * Alexander McCall Smith *","brand":"Little, Brown Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48733636002135,"sku":"9780349007564","price":8.54,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780349007564.jpg?v=1720000953","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/miss-bunting-virago-modern-classics-9780349007564","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}