Angela Mackail Thirkell

She thought she'd finished with romance. After the breakup of her engagement, Prudence eagerly accepted Dr. Benedict van Vinke's offer of a job in Holland. It seemed the perfect opportunity to begin an entire new life. What she wasn't prepared for was the effect Benedict and his young daughter, Sibella, would have on her emotions. When was she going to stop acting like a fool, she asked herself angrily, and remember she was just his employee?

Fanny Turner's obsession with finding a wife for her husband's friend Valentine Ensor produces a humorous tangle of romantic mishaps among the holiday guests at the Turner's Barsetshire home.

A refined young woman weathers the end of her marriage and finds renewal.

Middle-aged Catherine Middleton, married to an obtuse but endearing older man, is the still center of a swirl of two generations of "gentry" on the brink of WW II. The activities of youngsters and contemporaries go on around her and it is only gradually that one sees how, without conscious manipulation, nothing happens without her. The characters are subtly and humorously drawn.

Love and marriage — and delightful eccentrics — thrive in Angela Thirkell’s fictitious English county of Barsetshire. In this novel, Lady Gwendolyn Harcourt, sister of the Duke of Towers, marries elderly Rev. Oriel of Harefield, while a romance prospers between Lord Mellings and Lavinia Merton.

DJ prays for guidance as she tries to balance her time at the riding academy with school work, art projects, and her new stepfamily.

Story of Lady Graham, her only unmarried daughter, Edith, and Edith's two suitors.

The ghostly cousins from Brief Candles are back to help a young relative who is being pursued by a determined widow, managing to help out with bank robbers, a duel, and a murder along the way.

Coronation summer in a small English town.

Chronicle of the activities of leading country families.

Successful lady novelist Laura Morland and her boisterous young son Tony set off to spend Christmas at her country home in the sleepy surrounds of High Rising. But Laura's wealthy friend and neighbour George Knox has taken on a scheming secretary whose designs on marriage to her employer threaten the delicate social fabric of the village. Can clever, practical Laura rescue George from Miss Grey's clutches and, what's more, help his daughter Miss Sibyl Knox to secure her longed-for engagement?

"Amid the crises of the summer of 1968, two teenagers become lovers. Emily is a good Catholic girl, for whom an incarnate God means joy and contentment in the life of the body. William is preoccupied, in a vague sort of way, with politics and the evils of the System. Together, impelled by physical passion and the idealistic notion that "all our life is some form of religion, and all our action some belief," they run away to create a new life in the wilderness. In their absence, their parents' predictable lives take an entirely different course, and America itself seems to lose its innocence, never to be quite the same again."--BOOK JACKET.