Happy Returns: Volume 21

By: Thirkell, Angela

"Her writing celebrates the solid parochial English virtues of stiff-upper-lippery, good-sportingness, and] dislike of fuss. . . . Light, witty, easygoing books." --The New Yorker

As 1951 draws to a close, Christmas approaches--but the conservative upper class of Barsetshire have already received the gift they really wanted: Winston Churchill's re-election as prime minister. Nevertheless, their individual struggles carry on. A member of the House of Lords worries that marriage is not in the cards for him due to an insufficient fortune, while another man does manage to get engaged--but frets that his betrothed doesn't truly love him. The widow Lady Lufton misses her husband--as well as the money she's lost to taxes. And an aspiring scholar falls madly in love, but must choose between Oxford and the object of his affections . . .

" This] characteristically witty, nostalgic . . . novel in the beloved Barsetshire series describes the lingering effects of WWII on the fictional village that Thirkell adapted from its Victorian inventor and chronicler, Anthony Trollope." --Publishers Weekly

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 150409283X
• ISBN13: 9781504092838
• Release Date: January 2025
• Publisher: Open Road Media
• Length: 364 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 8.0"