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Sto caricando le informazioni... The New Moon With the Old (originale 1963; edizione 2012)di Dodie Smith (Autore)
Informazioni sull'operaThe New Moon with the Old di Dodie Smith (1963)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. A quick, fluffy, quasi-gothic fiction read. I definitely prefer "I Capture the Castle," but this was a pleasant enough diversion. ( ) Dodie Smith is to charm what Chanel is to perfume" (NYT) By sally tarbox on 6 February 2018 Format: Kindle Edition This is a charming, light and entertaining flight of fancy, full of improbable characters having even more improbable adventures. When nice, sensible Jane Minton turns up for a new position as secretary/ housekeeper for the delightful (but absent) Rupert Carrington, she is entranced with her new life. Four intelligent, personable children (one still at school); devoted servants and a luxurious lifestyle.... but when Rupert turns up to inform her he's wanted by the police for fraud and is going on the run, things suddenly change. The privileged youngsters (and Jane) need to go out in the world and find work... but no shops or factories for them, as each is taken up by wealthy individuals, to whom they rapidly become indispensable. Feel I desperately need a gritty real-life read now!! This was very entertaining. Escapism of the purest kind. It put me in mind of old fashioned romances, Whitehall farces, and Nancy Mitford's satirical novels, all at once. There are some rum goings on that pulled me up with a jolt, but Dodie Smith dealt with everything bizarre so matter of factly that it seemed less bizarre. The story is magical and bonkers, and I loved it. You think you have first-day-on-the-job woes? Nothing doing compared to Miss Minton. She's hired as secretary and near-instantly becomes surrogate parent to 4 teens/young adults, housekeeper, cook, working single-mom, adviser, and criminal co-conspirator. And that's day 1. As the kids begin disappearing to find their own way, she must decide to keep up the empty nest or shutter it or rent it out. And it's not even her house! I loved the chapters on the children's escapades. They are believably farcical and heartwarming and adventurous. This would make an excellent feature film. I really wasn't sure about this book. In the beginning I found it odd and I hated Merry so I was not happy with her section of the book. However partway through Drew's section I had a change of heart. It's an odd book. A mixture of old-fashioned and modern. By modern I mean modern for the time not modern as in recent. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
From the author of I Capture the Castle and The Hundred and One Dalmatians, an unusual adventure in which humour and more than a touch of strangeness are inextricably blended. When Jane Minton arrives at Dome House as a secretary-housekeeper, she finds herself sharing the comfortable country home of four attractive young people. Their charming widower father, Rupert Carrington is too occupied with his London business to see very much of them. Richard, the eldest, is a composer; Clare, whose true talents (if they can be called that) have not yet disclosed themselves, dreams of courtly romance; Drew is collecting material for a novel; and Merry, still at school, has her heart set on a stage career. Jane is warmly welcomed into this happy household and feels her luck is too good to be true. However, the private world of Dome House is fated to break up as Rupert flees England under threat of prosecution for fraud. He asks Jane to break the news to the children, who must now fend for themselves, and to do what she can to help them. However, the Carringtons are extremely unusual young people and the story of the eclectic choices they make next is an absorbing and unpredictable one. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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