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Title: HIGH RISING
A VIRAGO MODERN CLASSIC
By: Angela Thirkell, Alexander McCall Smith
Format: Electronic book text

List price: £7.49


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ISBN 10: 1405516704
ISBN 13: 9781405516709
Publisher: LITTLE, BROWN BOOK GROUP
Pub. date: 22 November, 2012
Edition: Digital original
Series: Virago Modern Classics
Description: Originally published: Great Britain: Hamish Hamilton, Ltd., 1933.
Synopsis: Successful lady novelist Laura Morland and her boisterous young son Tony set off to spend Christmas at her country home in the sleepy surrounds of High Rising. But Laura's wealthy friend and neighbour George Knox has taken on a scheming secretary whose designs on marriage to her employer threaten the delicate social fabric of the village. Can clever, practical Laura rescue George from Miss Grey's clutches and, what's more, help his daughter Miss Sibyl Knox to secure her longed-for engagement?Utterly charming and very funny, High Rising is irresistible comic entertainment.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Virago Press Ltd
Returns: Returnable
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