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High rising

Angela Mackail Thirkell

1949282 pagesabout 4–6 hours
1949
first published
  • 1949Hamish Hamilton · 300 pages · ENG
  • 1951Knopf · 282 pages · ENG
  • 1997Carroll & Graf Publishers · 282 pages · ENGISBN 9780786704224
  • 2005Moyer Bell · ENGISBN 9781559213059
  • 1994Carroll & Graf Pub · 282 pages · ENGISBN 9780881844634

Angela Thirkell's first novel in the Barsetshire series. Here we are introduced to Laura Morland, her publisher and friends in High and Low Rising. Between the wars in England we have middle class romance, a happy widow, high and low aspirations, and servants and children who are quite "killingly" funny.

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ThemesFamily
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