Angela Thirkell (1890-1961) was the eldest daughter of John William Mackail, a Scottish classical scholar and civil servant, and Margaret Burne-Jones. Her relatives included the pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones, Rudyard Kipling and Stanley Baldwin, and her grandfather was J. M. Barrie. She was educated in London and Paris, and began publishing articles and stories in the 1920s. In 1931 she brought out her first book, a memoir entitled Three Houses, and in 1933 her comic novel High Rising - set in the fictional county of Barsetshire, borrowed from Trollope - met with great success. She went on to write nearly thirty Barsetshire novels, as well as several further works of fiction and non-fiction. She was twice married and had four children.
En esta comedia romántica ambientada en los años treinta, la atractiva pero empobrecida Mary Preston acude como invitada a la espléndida finca de su tía Agnes en Rushwater. Allí, Mary perderá la cabeza por el apuesto seductor David Leslie, al mismo tiempo que Agnes y su madre, la...
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