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The Village by Laski, Marghanita and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at www.doorway.ru Marghanita Laski. · Rating details · ratings · 44 reviews. 'If anyone asked me to describe life in post-war Britain, ' commented Sarah Crompton in the Daily Telegraph, 'I would suggest they read The Village, a story of lovers divided by class that tells you more about the subtle gradations of life in the Home Counties and the cataclysmic changes wrought by war and a Labour government than any /5(47). The Village. Persephone book no: 51 52 AFTERWORD BY JULIET GARDINER. pp. ISBN 'If anyone asked me to describe life in post-war Britain,' commented Sarah Crompton in the Daily Telegraph, 'I would suggest they read The Village, a story of lovers divided by class that tells you more about the subtle gradations of life in the Home Counties and the cataclysmic changes .

There is to be a village dance to celebrate the end of the war all will be there. Margaret does not want to go she thinks. "There was something wrong with herself, that made Roger Gregory, the only young man of her own sort in the village, dance with her only as a duty and escape as quickly as he could." She returns to help in the kitchens and. England- after the war, the polite resistance to change, and a small village- outside of London- where the rigid line of the gentlefolk who belonged by birth gives way to the infiltration of new blood, new money. For the Trevors, upper class but definitely on their uppers, view with dismay the new family that moves in next door, preserve their gentility at the price of isolation, and brood. This item: The Village. by Marghanita Laski Paperback. £ Only 7 left in stock. Sent from and sold by Amazon. FREE Delivery. The Fortnight in September. by Rc Sherriff Paperback. £

The Village by Marghanita Laski caught British society on the cusp of change after the war (Retro Reads: s British Novels) The Cage by Andrea Newman shows how the Sixties arrived late in provincial Britain; Female TV Detectives: Maggie Forbes in The Gentle Touch; She’s The One: How Jane Austen’s Fanny Price has become a heroine for our times. The author, Marghanita Lanski, is well-known for portraying her eloquence through simple vocabulary and straightforward structure. Further, the flow of the story gives it a haunting tone which draws the readers in. The themes of this story are control and dependency, fear, and the desire for freedom. Originally published in , The Village begins in , on the very last night of the war. Two middle-aged ladies, Mrs. Trevor and Mrs. Wilson, are spending their last night together on overnight duty at the Red Cross station in their village, a suburb not far from London.