The Headmistress

Barsetshire in the latter years of the Second World War is a peaceful and gossipy place, but there has been one lively change. A girls' school, evacuated from London, has taken over Harefield Park. Miss Sparling seems to be the perfect headmistress: she dresses as a headmistress should and is an easy and erudite conversationalist. Her new neighbours like her and her pupils respect her, but there is something missing from her life; something which - though she never dreamt it when she arrived - perhaps Barsetshire can provide...

Product details

• Authors: Angela Thirkell, Angela Thirkell Thirkell
• Publisher: Virago Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 28.02.2017
• EAN: 9780349007472
• ISBN: 978-0-349-00747-2
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 197 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Virago Modern Classics; VMC; VMC; Virago Modern Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Main work before 1945; FICTION / General, FICTION / Romance / General, FICTION / Sagas, FICTION / Family Life / General, FICTION / Humorous / General, FICTION / City Life, FICTION / Romance / Clean & Wholesome, FICTION / Small Town & Rural, Narrative theme: Interior life, Family life fiction, Humorous fiction