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Pomfret Towers
- Author
- Angela Thirkell
- Narrator
- Yonnie Fraser
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Publish Date
- 9 April 2015
- Run Time
- 8 hours 31 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Critics Review
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A perfect balance of satirical observation and chocolate-box charm ... one of the cosiest and funniest reads this winter
The Lady
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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
- Yonnie Fraser
- Duration
- 8 hours 31 minutes
- Release Date
- 9 April 2015
- ISBN
- 9781405533331
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Genre
- Classic fiction: literary and general, Family life fiction / Stories about family, Humorous fiction, Narrative theme: interior life / psychological fiction
Synopsis
Pomfret Towers, Barsetshire seat of the earls of Pomfret, was constructed, with great pomp and want of concern for creature comforts, in the once-fashionable style of Sir Gilbert Scott's St Pancras station. It makes a grand setting for a house party at which gamine Alice Barton and her brother Guy are honoured guests, mixing with the headstrong Rivers family, the tally-ho Wicklows and, most charming of all, Giles Foster, nephew and heir of the present Lord Pomfret. But whose hand will Mr Foster seek in marriage, and who will win Alice's tender heart? Angela Thirkell's classic 1930s comedy is lively, witty and deliciously diverting.
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