The Matchmaker
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:4th Aug '11
£10.99
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'Her character drawing is perfection, and her sense of fun too subtle to permit quotation' - James Agate, author of Ego
Uprooted from war-torn London, Alda Lucie-Brown and her three daughters start a new life at Pine Cottage in rural Sussex. Unsuited to a quiet life, Alda attempts to orchestrate - with varying degrees of success - the love affairs of her neighbours.Uprooted from war-torn London, Alda Lucie-Brown and her three daughters start a new life at Pine Cottage in rural Sussex. Unsuited to a quiet life, Alda attempts to orchestrate - with varying degrees of success - the love affairs of her neighbours. Her unwilling subjects include an Italian POW, a Communist field-hand, a battery-chicken farmer and her intelligent friend Jean.
Her character drawing is perfection, and her sense of fun too subtle to permit quotation * James Agate, author of Ego *
Chipper is the word: Gibbons's heroines are plucky, determined and quietly hedonistic. But she can do melancholy with the best of them, too, not to mention melodrama * Guardian *
Stella Gibbons…an exception to that old canard: women can't make us laugh * Independent *
The Jane Austen of the 20th century -- Lynne Truss
Stella is stellar * Sunday Herald *
ISBN: 9780099529330
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 26mm
Weight: 298g
432 pages