Miss Buncle's Book

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The book gets published and the fun and delight ensues (for the reader of this book) as we watch the various townspeople easily recognizing themselves in the book because the naive Miss Buncle didn't think to disguise anyone. There are just few respectable ways for an unmarried woman living in a small English village of Silverstream in the 1930s to earn income. While the finger is pointed at many local residents no one even considers that frumpy ol' Miss Buncle could have ever had the ability to pull this book off.

What ensues is at times hilarious as the inhabitants try to find out who the author of this "filth" is. There are a lot of characters and the book within a book idea could have gotten messy and confusing but it thankfully didn't. Stich ins Wespennest" wurde 1934 veröffentlicht, und von nun an schrieb Stevenson jedes Jahr einen Roman. Abbott had never before read a novel about a woman who wrote a novel about a woman who wrote a novel—it was like a recurring decimal, he thought, or perhaps even more like a perspective of mirrors such as tailors use, in which the woman and her novel were reflected back and forth to infinity. The endless play on mirrors and reflections between the characters in both iterations is hilarious and ever so entertaining.

If you find honest characterizations and interesting people depicted with both love and accuracy, you'll find entre into the book . I was immediately drawn to Barbara Buncle, but even more so to the village around her and the characters and story playing out on the page. Today’s series I love is an excuse to talk about my favourite book that I read last week which also happened to be the third book in a trilogy – which is a series right? When the book is published, it is a great success but doesn’t take long for the village to find out about it and start to try to work out who is responsible.

The Major, for instance, has no introspection, can hardly follow a conversation, and thinks in cliches. After reading Stevenson's lovely but lesser-known 'The Four Graces', I have to say I didn't find this novel as good. Written in 1936 and set in about that same time, Miss Buncle's Book captures the charm of life in a small English town and the various characters who live there, with all their foibles. Meanwhile other more positive outcomes occur as a result of the book--the Colonel and his next door neighbour get married, and the vicar escapes the clutches of a gold digger who thinks he has more money than he does.She’s kind and often taken advantage of, but also wickedly observant and able to take her revenge (if she wants to) in her writing. She is already living in Reduced Circumstances, with just her faithful former nanny to help her out, but when her dividends come in at a much reduced rate she needs to find another source of income.