The Provincial Lady’s novels are E. M. Delafield’s most popular and enduring works. This series presents the reader with the diaries of a clumsy provincial lady of the 1930s in her everyday life’s adventures. Her simple duties as mother, wife and friend, the urge of buying dresses truly unfit for her, her misadventures with hair dye, her obsession with books and her look on the society around here are described with wit and humour. All the books of the series are very funny and intelligent with their many literary references and underneath all this amusement lies a more critical, satirical point of view. E. M. Delafield is truly a worthy successor of her beloved Jane Austen and, possibly, a forerunner of our contemporary Helen Fielding.

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• THE HEEL OF ACHILLES (Timeless Wisdom Collection Book 1160)
• THE OPTIMIST (Timeless Wisdom Collection Book 1165)
• The Way Things Are (Bloomsbury Reader)
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