The Brandons

by Angela Thirkell (Author)

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  Paperback
  1998

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  One hot July day, Mrs Lavinia Brandon, the beautiful, diplomatic and universally adored widow of Henry Brandon, receives an ominous summons. Henry's Aunt Sissie, a formidable and wealthy elderly spinster, has requested a visit from her relatives with a view to deciding whom should inherit her home. As Aunt Sissie increasingly takes to her bed, Mr Grant falls perilously in love with Lavinia, his cringingly embarrassing mother makes a thorough nuisance of herself, Sir Edmund, an old friendof the Brandons, insists on misunderstanding everyone, and Miss Morris, Sissie's companion is comtemplating a jobless future with a sense of relief...

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  Paperback
  1988

  $3.28

  This is one of Angela Thirkell's 13 novels set in Trollope's Barsetshire, and peopled with characters from the upper crust of society to the tyrants behind the green baize doors and the miscreants of Grumper's end. Here are the beautiful Mrs Brandon (before whom even the vicar blushes and stammers), fierce Aunt Sissie, the Italy-addicted Mrs Grant and many others. Old and young fall into a hopeless tangle, not unravelled until after the antics of the vicarage fete. Angela Thirkell (1890-1961) was one of the best known comic novelists of her day. She was grand-daughter of Edward Burne-Jones, a cousin of Rudyard Kipling and Stanley Baldwin and mother of Colin MacInnes and Graham McInnes.