 | The Constant Nymph (Virago modern classics) by Margaret Kennedy
Buy new: £6.97 / Used from: £0.01 Wallow in this wonderful novel of love and death and proto-hippies in the 1920s.
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 | I Capture the Castle (Vintage Classics) by Dodie Smith
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £0.10 Utterly satisfying, funny, clever and innocent. A lovely read.
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 | Cold Comfort Farm (Essential Penguin) by Stella Gibbons
Buy new: £5.93 / Used from: £0.01 Repays repeated reading. May your suckbind ever blossom and your little mop never wear out.
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 | Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (Persephone Classics) by Winifred Watson
Buy new: £6.88 / Used from: £3.48 Dreamy little one off set in the 1930s - wish fulfilment for grown ups.
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 | Someone at a Distance (Persephone Classics) by Dorothy Whipple
Buy new: £6.97 / Used from: £8.83 Home-counties adultery in the mid 20th century. Bad French girls. A good solid read.
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 | Mariana (Persephone Classics) by Monica Dickens
Buy new: £6.48 / Used from: £3.55 Monica Dickens delivers totally in this category, sweet, good, funny and clever.
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 | The Priory by Dorothy Whipple
Buy new: £11.21 / Used from: £24.99 New discovery for me, taps into the same vein of drama in the upper classes.
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 | The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford
Buy new: £7.19 / Used from: £3.32 Lingerie always wins over underwear for me. Extra poignant as Nancy's Frenchmen never delivered let alone died a hero.
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 | A Wreath for the Enemy by Pamela Frankau
Buy new: £10.00 / Used from: £8.37 Anything by Pamela Frankau is readable and enjoyable.
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