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The Old Bank House (1949)

av Angela Thirkell

Serier: Barsetshire Books (18)

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A continuation of Thirkell's modern Barsetshire chronicles. The old bank house is a large and beautiful dwelling belonging to Miss Sowerby, the last of the Barsetshire line, finally decides to sell her house to the leery Mr. Sam Adams. I must tell you about the house, Mr. Adams... It likes a mistress.… (mer)
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This entry in the Barsetshire series reminded me of some of the earlier books in its style and wit - much more light-hearted than the previous few. A charming tale of the lives, particularly the love lives, of the county and not quite county. Thirkell makes all the nuances of the different classes of English society come to life for me (an American) in a way that few other authors have. Austen, for example, wrote almost exclusively of the gentry. Thirkell's books focus on the gentry but also included the "foreigners" who moved into the county in the 1920s and 30s, and who are very nice but not county, as well as the "self-made" men and their families. ( )
  leslie.98 | Jun 27, 2023 |
The cover is certainly beautiful. And while it's not my favorite of Angela Thirkell's books, it's quite nice and continues to have spots of insight where the reader is inclined to laugh a little and say, "Yup."
Things must have felt awfully rotten in Britain during the first years after WW II. This book, like many of its predecessors, has the air of bravely carrying on and trying not to mind too much about the world changing around you, even though you're mostly sure it's not for the better. But it's not depressing, it's just kind of poignant. Likeable and occasionally loveable characters. ( )
  Alishadt | Feb 25, 2023 |
The Old Bank House is the eighteenth of Angela Thirkell’s Barsetshire novels. Set in the late 1940s, the citizens of Barsetshire have adjusted -- somewhat -- to peacetime and the post-war Labour government. MP and industrialist Sam Adams has decided to step back from day-to-day business operations. His daughter, Heather, will soon marry and this will leave Sam, a widower, on his own. He has bought a new home which, according to the previous owner, “needs a mistress.” Regular readers will immediately spot this foreshadowing, and know there will be at least one happy ending to this novel. Meanwhile, Young Tom Grantly has recently earned a classics degree at Oxford, but finds himself less interested in the academic career his degree prepared him for, and more interested in land work such as farming or estate management. Fortunately for Tom, he is well-liked and there are many who are willing to show him the ropes and give him opportunities to learn. And his sister Eleanor, although recently appointed to run the Red Cross Library, has greater aspirations.

The major Barsetshire families are brought in through the usual set pieces of garden parties, country house weekends, and “farm talk.” These are delivered with Thirkell’s characteristic humor, and advance the storylines in pleasing ways without becoming overly complicated. They are also a way for Thirkell to document life events for certain characters who, while not central to this novel, are pivotal to the series as a whole.

These are novels in which nothing much happens, but I always close the book feeling satisfied. ( )
2 rösta lauralkeet | Aug 19, 2020 |
This entry in the Barsetshire series reminded me of some of the earlier books in its style and wit - much more light-hearted than the previous few. A charming tale of the lives, particularly the love lives, of the county and not quite county. Thirkell makes all the nuances of the different classes of English society come to life for me (an American) in a way that few other authors have. Austen, for example, wrote almost exclusively of the gentry. Thirkell's books focus on the gentry but also included the "foreigners" who moved into the county in the 1920s and 30s, and who are very nice but not county, as well as the "self-made" men and their families. ( )
  leslie.98 | Sep 26, 2013 |
Another is Thirkell's "Barset" novels which I inherited from my father but have not read.
  antiquary | Oct 8, 2013 |
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"I suppose the wall-paper has faded a great deal", said Mrs Grantly. Miss Sowerby opened the bottom drawer and extracted from it a roll of paper. "That is as it was when my great-grandfather brought it back from Canton", she said. ... "Good paper and vegetable colours and wood blocks I suppose."
"I shall tell [The Head Chief's] father that the number four is sacred in England, He has often heard me speak of the Fourth of June as the greatest festival of the year - always excepting Christmas and Easter."
"Could Jennifer go to the Barchester Odeon with her and see Glamora Tudor in What Men Desire with the new male star Hastings Pond."
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A continuation of Thirkell's modern Barsetshire chronicles. The old bank house is a large and beautiful dwelling belonging to Miss Sowerby, the last of the Barsetshire line, finally decides to sell her house to the leery Mr. Sam Adams. I must tell you about the house, Mr. Adams... It likes a mistress.

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