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Christmas at High Rising

A Virago Modern Classic
  • Author
    • Angela Thirkell
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Originally published in the 1930s and 1940s and never before collected, these stories by the incomparable Angela Thirkell relate merry scenes of a trip to the pantomime, escapades on ice, a Christmas Day gone awry, and an electrifying afternoon for Laura Morland and friends at Low Rising, not to mention the chatter of the arty set at a London private view. Charming, irreverent and full of mischievous humour, they offer the utmost entertainment in any season of the year.
  • Published: Nov 21 2013
  • Pages: 160
  • 196 x 128mm
  • ISBN: 9780349004303
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Press Reviews

  • Alexander McCall Smith

    Charming, very funny indeed. Angela Thirkell is perhaps the most Pym-like of any twentieth-century author, after Pym herself
  • The Lady
    These stories are a seasonal delight ... they will provide hours of laugh-out-loud enjoyment for all ages
  • Pippa Wright, author of The Foster Husband

    To be so witty and charming yet also so brilliantly brusque and practical as Laura Morland is my new year's resolution
  • Stylist
    Laugh-out-loud funny and filled with memorable and realistically flawed characters
  • Alexander McCall Smith

    Charming, very funny indeed. Angela Thirkell is perhaps the most Pym-like of any twentieth-century author, after Pym herself
  • Pippa Wright, author of The Foster Husband

    To be so witty and charming yet also so brilliantly brusque and practical as Laura Morland is my new year's resolution
  • The Lady
    Hours of laugh-out-loud entertainment for all ages