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Good Evening, Mrs Craven: The Wartime Stories of Mollie Panter-Donnes (Persephone Classics)
by: Mollie Panter-Downes

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.912
EAN: 9781906462017
ISBN: 1906462011
Label: Persephone Books Ltd
Manufacturer: Persephone Books Ltd
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 200
Publication Date: April 24, 2008
Publisher: Persephone Books Ltd
Studio: Persephone Books Ltd
Sales Rank: 87949

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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- brilliant minute observation of human nature
I don't normally choose to read short stories but this collection holds together beautifully as they all centre around the stresses suffered by those on the home front in World War Two. What I really like about them is the author's careful, sympathetic and wry observation of human nature. Somehow they seem to slip down as happily as cocoa might have under wartime rationing, and I am sure I will be re-reading them many times.

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- Tribute to an England past
Mollie Panter-Downes takes a wonderfully penetrating look at how World War II affects the daily lives of families, wives, and veterans. She paints a nostalgic picture of these very 'English' lives, yet does not shy away from the harsh realities the conflict produced for those left at home. The title story is particularly moving in its potrayal of Mr.Craven's mistress 'Mrs. Craven'. This middle-aged spinster's deep loneliness and anguish when her companion has gone to fight and his regular letters suddenly cease, touches at the heart of human suffering. From the five Persephone books I have read, this stands out as a favourite.

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- Middle class England at war
Mollie Panter-Downes wrote for the New Yorker for over fifty years, and these stories have, until now, never been reprinted. The stories give a wonderful picture of people adapting to the war and the changed circumstances, both social and material, that they find themselves in. The title story poignantly explores the emotions of a woman who has had a long affair with a married man, almost a second marriage, and realises that if her lover is killed, she will have no right to know what has happened, there will just be a deafening silence. In The hunger of Miss Burton, a woman fantasises about food, all the food she can no longer obtain, to compensate for the emptiness of her life. In Goodbye, my love, Ruth spends the last weekend of her husband's ... Read More:

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