Ich kann dieses Buch nur empfehlen, insbesondere auch solchen Lesern, die wie ich zunächst skeptisch sind und glauben, das sei nichts für sie. Some of Miss Buncle's word association that I so liked and that was probably what made people start paying attention. 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. Miss Buncle is a spinster in rather desperate need of money as her dividends are no longer paying out. She doesn’t need to invent a thing, although she does produce a pied piper who gets some of her neighbours moving!

As for the dialogues, they are skilfully put together while keeping a deceptively ‘simple’ style, and combine comedy with insight. just right for those times you need to take a break from serious reading or want only to put your feet up with a cup of tea and relax. This vintage book, which was written in the 1930's, is an absolute charmer, like its main character.Umschlaggestaltung und Konzeption von Roland Eschlbeck und Rosemarie Kreuzer unter Verwendung einer Illustration von Natascha Römer. But it's not too sweet--there is enough sharply observant social satire to keep the reader wide awake and enough plot twists so that I was loathe to stop reading even in the midst of a glorious holiday weekend. Stevenson succeeds in creating various plot lines that she intertwines with great dexterity and humour.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Her money is drying up—as it is for many of her neighbors—and she has written a novel to rescue herself from poverty. 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.But the seriousness is minimal – mostly this is an entirely light-hearted, easy read, one of those books like Mariana, Miss Pettigrew, The Making of a Marchioness and Greenery Street which can be recommended unreservedly to anyone looking for something undemanding, fun and absorbing that is also well-written and intelligent.

Just a reminder that the 'historical accuracy demands that queerness always equals doom' crowd are factually wrong as well as jerks.It made your brain reel if you pursued the thought too far, but there was no need to do so, unless you wanted to, of course. 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. This is a delightfully clever read that combines old-fashioned charm with perceptiveness, comfort and dry humor. If you own this one and haven't yet read it (Darlene I am looking at you), it is time to take it off the shelf and get to it.

There is one instance of a tiny sliver of paper at the outer edge of one page being pulled off onto the page before it, obviously far from the print. Schließlich hat sie eine Idee: Sie wird ein Buch schreiben, und zwar - da Phantasie nicht ihre Stärke ist - über etwas, das sie kennt.

Meek and dowdy Miss Buncle doesn't occur to anyone as a suspect, but how long can she keep her secret? If I had a list for books that was labeled simply "charming," Miss Buncle's Book would certainly top the list. El libro se publica, es un gran éxito y obviamente todo el mundo tiene algo que decir acerca de este pues causa mucho malestar general.