Summer Half by Angela Thirkell

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Summer Half by Angela Thirkell

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Summary

A novel concerned with parties, punting and awkward passions follows the story of a headmaster plagued by love-sick masters and precocious pupils as well as importunate parents and most of all, his daughter Rose, whose stubborn dim-wittedness almost outweighs her startling beauty.

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Summer Half by Angela Thirkell

The denouement of Philip Winter's ill-begotten engagement to the feather-brained Rose Birkett is enacted in full view of Southbridge School's extended family during a holiday break. Evidence of Rose's empty head is plain to see when, at tea, through sheer want of personality, she brings conversation to her own level and insists that Hamlet and Shakespeare are both names of plays, and most probably the same one. Everyone, including her own parents, is rooting for Philip's escape. What they couldn't have hoped for was that Rose, overwhelmed by the sheer dullness of being engaged, would break it off herself.

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SKU Unavailable
ISBN 13 9780701208141
ISBN 10 0701208147
Title Summer Half
Author Angela Thirkell
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Vintage Publishing
Year published 1988-07-18
Number of pages 252
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.