Results for "Panter-Downes, Mollie"

My Husband Simon tells the story of the married life of Nevis Falconer, a young woman novelist, and Simon Quinn. Temperamentally unsuited, they are only kept together by a mutual physical attraction, in spite of innumerable quarrels. They live this superficial existence for three years, until one da... Read More about My Husband Simon (British Library Women Writers)

Mollie Panter-Downes was noted for her wit, perception and incisiveness thanks to her reflections on English domestic life during the war years. This collection of her short stories explores the common themes of the day, discussing fear, separation, evacuations and the wartime obsession with food.... Read More about Good Evening, Mrs. Craven: The Wartime Stories of Mollie Panter-Downes (Persephone Classics)

ON THE GUARDIAN'S 2001 READING LIST FOR WAR FICTION It is a summer's day in 1946. The English village of Wealding is no longer troubled by distant sirens, yet the rustling coils of barbed wire are a reminder that something, some quality of life, has evaporated. Together again after years of separati... Read More about One Fine Day (VMC)