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Set sixty years ago at the time of the fall of Tobruk in 1942, one of the low points of the war, and written only a year later when people still had no idea which way the war was going, A House in the Country has a verisimilitude denied to modern writers.
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A House in the Country by Jocelyn Playfair published by Persephone Books. An elegiac romance that describes social niceties, petty squabbles, self-restraint, all played out in a rural idyll, while abroad thousands die defending that very way of life. One of the great Second World War novels.
A House in the Country concerns a returnee, Ray, who has made enough money in London to rebuild a house in Colombo. He is helped by Siri, a young man from the country, and together they talk about building another house, in the country.
Jocelyn Playfair's 1944 novel is set in a great Georgian country house, which has been billeted by all manner of homeless Englishmen, during the fall of Tobruk in 1942.
14 mars 2008 · The central character, Cressida Chance, is 38-year-old widow who runs a grand Georgian house in the country. Here she has numerous paying house guests whom she entertains, feeds and looks after, including her formidable elderly aunt, who visits regularly from London, and Tori, a gentleman from an unidentified European country, who ...
It is set towards the end of WWII in a beautiful old manor house in the English countryside. Cressida and her young son live here, as she lets out the rooms of the house to a variety of disparate characters all brought together by the vagaries of war.
