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Love Among the Ruins

Written by: Angela Thirkell
Narrated by: Catrin Walker-Booth
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It's the summer of 1947, and peacetime has brought new challenges to Barsetshire. Beliers Priory, once a military hospital during the War, has now become a flourishing preparatory school for boys run by Leslie and Philip Winter.

When Charles Belton is hired as the new school master, six young people are thrown together in a web of flirtations and misunderstandings: Charles and his elder brother, Naval Captain Freddy Belton; Susan Dean, now Red Cross Depot Librarian, and her glamorous sister Jessica, an actress in thrall to the theatre; pragmatic Lucy Marling and her brother Oliver. And with the old social order in ruins, the scene is set for a delicious summer of comic - and romantic - possibilities.

Love Among the Ruins is a delightful, clever and wryly poignant classic, and the 17th novel in Angela Thirkell's beloved Barsetshire series.

©1948 Angela Thirkell (P)2024 Hachette Audio UK Classics Fiction Genre Fiction Literature & Fiction
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I’m afraid this not my favourite book of all of hers. As always well written and with humour but sadly very political. Worse, the performer seemed to have a limit on how many world to read before hesitating whether it made sense of the sentence or not. I also found the tone of her voice irritating. The earlier books were read well so I was even more disappointed in this one. I bought the next one and hope it sounds better if not, they both go back.

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