Marling Hall: A Barsetshire Novel by Angela…

Marling Hall (original 1942; edition 1972)

by Angela Thirkell

Series: Barsetshire Books (11)

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Info:	Pyramid Books (1972), Paperback
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Marling Hall: A Barsetshire Novel by Angela Thirkell (1942)

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I enjoy Angela Thirkell's sense of humor and the view of English county life she portrays in her novels. This, the 11th of her Barsetshire series, is a bit more bittersweet as it is set in the midst of WW2. This is by no means a war book, but even life in the manor house is affected by the rationing, the young men off in one branch of service or another, and the evacuees. (

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Marling Hall stands on a little eminence among what would in more golden days have been called well-wooded parkland.

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The truth, as David well knew himself, was that he feared boredom as he feared nothing else, and among the boring things of life he counted close human relationships. ... however delightful they might be, however flattering their affection for him might be, he too quickly felt that he had had enough.

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This dry comedy of manners, set in a parochial England that was rapidly disappearing under the threat of Nazi Germany, was the first of Thirkell's increasingly dark novels written during World War II. But the placid surface of middle-class life in towns such as Marling Melicent--where a bohemian, faintly disreputable brother and sister suddenly appear and rent an Edwardian manor--remains mostly undisturbed. Thirkell, who portrayed a vanishing England, is enjoying something of a revival with many of her 40-odd novels being reprinted in the United States.

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Mr. Marling, of Marling Hall, realizes he will probably never be able to hold onto his wonderful old estate and to pass it down to his children. World War II is bringing an end to so many things, but the Marlings carry on as best they can in the face of rationing and changed living conditions. Into their world erupt Geoffrey Harvey and his sister Frances, bombed out of their London home. Bohemian and sophisticated, they rent a local house and it is not long before they begin to have an effect on their neighbors. Geoffrey begins to court Lettice, the Marlings' older widowed daughter, but he finds he has rivals for her affections in her cousin David Lindsey and Captain Barclay. Observing everything and quietly keeping events on an even keel is Miss Bunting. Observing everything and quietly keeping events on an even keel is Miss Bunting. .… (more)

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