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Bewildering Cares

Bewildering Cares - Paperback

by Winifred Peck
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Availability:In StockContributor:Winifred PeckPublish date:2016-10-03Pages:206
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Dean Street PressISBN-13:9781911413875ISBN-10:1911413872UPC:9781911413875Book Category:FictionSize:7.81 x 5.06 x 0.44 inchesWeight:0.45Product ID:SCTSRR1CQE

'It's a storm in a tea-cup, of course, but then we happen to live in a tea-cup '

So begins Camilla Lacely's charming, witty diary of life as a vicar's wife in a mid-sized town outside of Manchester in the anxious, early days of World War II. The 'everything and nothing' that happens include a controversy swirling around the curate's pacifist sermon (through which, alas, Camilla napped, making it difficult for her to discuss with outraged parishioners), servant problems, anxieties about Camilla's son off training with his regiment, the day-to-day worries of friends, and a potential romance in the town ... or are there two romances?

Readers of Bewildering Cares might well be reminded of the likes of E.M. Delafield or Angela Thirkell, but Peck offers her own distinct take--sometimes hilarious, sometimes touching--on the ironies and heartbreaks (not to mention the storms in teacups) of domestic life, community, faith and life during wartime. This new edition includes an introduction by social historian Elizabeth Crawford.

'(Winifred Peck) deserves our real gratitude for making us laugh in these troublous days' Times Literary Supplement

'A romantic who was as sharp as a needle' Penelope Fitzgerald

Languages:EnglishPublisher:Dean Street PressISBN-13:9781911413875ISBN-10:1911413872UPC:9781911413875Book Category:FictionSize:7.81 x 5.06 x 0.44 inchesWeight:0.45Product ID:SCTSRR1CQE
Peck, Winifred: - Winifred Peck (1882-1962) was born Winifred Frances Knox in Oxford, the daughter of the future Bishop of Manchester. Her mother Ellen was the daughter of the Bishop of Lahore. A few years after her mother's death, Winifred Peck became one of the first pupils at Wycombe Abbey School, and later studied at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. Returning to Manchester, and under the influence of Christian Socialism, she acted as a social worker in her father's diocese, as well as starting out as a professional writer. After writing a biography of Louis IX, she turned to fiction in her early thirties, writing over twenty novels, including two detective mysteries. She married James Peck in 1911, and they had two sons together. James was knighted in 1938, and it was as Lady Peck that his wife was known to many contemporary reviewers. Bewildering Cares, a novel about the perplexing and richly comic life of a parish priest's wife in the early months of World War Two, is now available as a Furrowed Middlebrow book.
Publisher: Dean Street Press

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