The Modern Classics Diary of a Provincial Lady, E M Delafield metal ”—The Economist

”—The Economist

In an entertaining two-hour read you’ll learn:

arrives at Tranquillum House nursing a bad back

and literary fiction

I could practically hear Louis Armstrong crooning What a Wonderful World in the background

The Modern Classics Diary of a Provincial Lady, E M Delafield metal ”—The Economist'January 22nd Robert startles me at breakfast by asking if my cold which he has hitherto ignored is better. I reply that it has gone. Then why, he asks, do I look like that? Feel that life is wholly unendurable, and decide madly to get a new hat' It's not easy being a Provincial Lady in Devonshire in the 1920s, juggling a grumpy husband, mischievous children and a host of domestic dilemmas from rice mould to a petulant cook. But this Provincial Lady