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thenovelbook's review
3.0
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.
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.
krobart's review
4.0
See my review here:
https://whatmeread.wordpress.com/2022/11/30/review-2074-thirkellbar-the-old-bank-house/
https://whatmeread.wordpress.com/2022/11/30/review-2074-thirkellbar-the-old-bank-house/
cimorene1558's review
3.0
Good, but a little more drawn out than perhaps it needed to be, and this edition is the worst example of the demise of proof reading that I have ever seen. There are at least 30 errors that are obviously the result of someone being careless with spellcheck.
caroparr's review
4.0
It had been a long, long time since I had read this one, and it's a goodie. Lucy and Sam Adams find each other after some agonizing misunderstandings, Eleanor Grantly behaves like an idiot but has a happy ending, and Miss Sowerby triumphs with Palafax borealis over Lady Norton in an encounter that will warm the hearts of all right-minded people.
expendablemudge's review
3.0
Rating: 3.4* of five
I have finally figured it out: The pleasure of reading these books comes from the same orderly place that the pleasure of studying genealogical tables comes from. If you're into it, this kind of book, with its large cast of characters that you meet here, the large cast of characters you've met before in other circumstances, and the passing mentions of familiar names, will wrap you up in a tea-cosy and feed you clotted cream on scones in front of a warm fire.
Still, in this entry into the Chronicles of Barsetshire, the characters one meets again are interesting but not A list, and a lot of the new people aren't that fascinating. Laura Morland, the authoress's alter ego in these books, appears, and that's always fun. But overall, this book would most certainly not be the first one a newbie should pick up. It's a fill-in and comfort read for us old hands.
No recommendations, no avoid notices, just a small sigh of contentment at having discovered a new book in an old, well-loved series.
I have finally figured it out: The pleasure of reading these books comes from the same orderly place that the pleasure of studying genealogical tables comes from. If you're into it, this kind of book, with its large cast of characters that you meet here, the large cast of characters you've met before in other circumstances, and the passing mentions of familiar names, will wrap you up in a tea-cosy and feed you clotted cream on scones in front of a warm fire.
Still, in this entry into the Chronicles of Barsetshire, the characters one meets again are interesting but not A list, and a lot of the new people aren't that fascinating. Laura Morland, the authoress's alter ego in these books, appears, and that's always fun. But overall, this book would most certainly not be the first one a newbie should pick up. It's a fill-in and comfort read for us old hands.
No recommendations, no avoid notices, just a small sigh of contentment at having discovered a new book in an old, well-loved series.