Peace Breaks Out
- Author
- Angela Thirkell
- Narrator
- Elaine Claxton
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Publish Date
- 12 November 2026
- Run Time
- 12 hours 11 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
It is 1945. When peace breaks out at last, familiar wartime routines are interrupted, and the residents of Barsetshire seem as disconcerted as they are overjoyed.
As the country's eligible young men return home, life regains momentum: before long, everyone is spinning in a flurry of misunderstandings and engagements. The older generation, though, sees that the world will never be the same again.
Both wry and poignant, Peace Breaks Out was written in the tumultuous year in which it is set. It is an unforgettable portrait of the joy and misgivings felt in the final days of the Second World War.
Critics Review
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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
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The novels are a delight, with touches of E. F. Benson, E. M. Delafield and P. G. Wodehouse
Independent on Sunday
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Charming, very funny indeed. Angela Thirkell is perhaps the most Pym-like of any twentieth-century author, after Pym herself
Alexander McCall Smith
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Details
- Author
- Angela Thirkell
- Narrator
- Elaine Claxton
- Duration
- 12 hours 11 minutes
- Release Date
- 12 November 2026
- ISBN
- 9781405568494
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Family life fiction / Stories about family, Humorous fiction, Narrative theme: interior life / psychological fiction
Synopsis
<b>'You read her, laughing, and want to do your best to protect her characters from any reality but their own' <i>New York Times</i></b><br><br>It is 1945. When peace breaks out at last, familiar wartime routines are interrupted, and the residents of Barsetshire seem as disconcerted as they are overjoyed. <br><br>As the country's eligible young men return home, life regains momentum: before long, everyone is spinning in a flurry of misunderstandings and engagements. The older generation, though, sees that the world will never be the same again.<br><br>Both wry and poignant, <i>Peace Breaks Out</i> was written in the tumultuous year in which it is set. It is an unforgettable portrait of the joy and misgivings felt in the final days of the Second World War.
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