Miss Buncle’s Book Category_Persephone Classics and the state of the

and the state of the nation in the 1950s’ writes Amanda Craig in her Persephone Preface

this is a fascinating and important book even for the town-dweller

’ He continues: ‘The Sack of Bath’s publication in 1973 was the culmination of an already prolonged effort to lever the progressive destruction of Bath’s Georgian character into the popular consciousness

wonderfully-written book very highly

the former giving a small nod to the battlefields of the recently ended war and the latter another nod to the optimism and cheeriness of spring-time daffodils and the future

Miss Buncle’s Book Category_Persephone Classics and the state of thePREFACE BY ALINE TEMPLETON 352pp ISBN 9781903155714 The storyline of Miss Buncle's Book (1934) is a simple one: Barbara Buncle, who is unmarried and perhaps in her late 30s, lives in a small village and writes a novel about it in order to try and supplement her meagre income. In this respect she is at one with Miss Pettigrew and Miss Ranskill, two other unmarried women who, not having subsumed their existence into that of a man, have to find a way of