About this book
<p><b>'Gibbons is superb on middle class life' SAM JORDISON, <i>GUARDIAN</i></b><br> <br> <b>'A sharp-edged romantic comedy, we have a chance to see what we've been missing' <i>DAILY MAIL</i></b><br> <br> <b>'What luxury to stumble upon this quirky book, and the fascinating modern woman who wrote it' SOPHIE DAHL</b><br> <br> Life is not quite a fairytale for poor Viola. Left penniless, the young widow is forced to live with her late husband's family in a joyless old house. There's Mr Wither, a tyrannical old miser, Mrs Wither, who thinks Viola is just a common shop girl and two unlovely sisters-in-law, one of whom is in love with the chauffeur.<br> <br> Only the prospect of the charity ball can raise Viola's spirits - especially as Victor Spring, the local prince charming will be there. But Victor's intentions towards our Cinderella are, in short, not quite honourable . . .</p>
Publication Details
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Published
- 2010
- Pages
- 387
- ISBN
- 9780143117575
About Unknown Author
Stella Dorothea Gibbons was an English author, journalist, and poet. She established her reputation with her first novel, Cold Comfort Farm (1932), which has been reprinted many times. Although she was active as a writer for half a century, none of her later 22 novels or other literary works—which included a sequel to Cold Comfort Farm—achieved the same critical or popular success. Much of her work was long out of print before a modest revival in the 21st century.
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