Amalia's Story, Chapter Ten
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Angela Thirkell Book Summaries #1
High Rising!
(1933)
by Amalia Angeloni Jacobucci
https://angelathirkellsociety.org/writings/book-summaries/
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In Angela Thirkell’s first Barsetshire novel, she sets the plot pattern which will be played out in most of her later books. She also introduces us to specific characters as well as “types” who will appear and reappear in changing relationships as the years go by. There is the middle-aged woman centrally involved in the events and activities around her; here, Laura Morland, a happily widowed author of very successful “good bad books” (Thirkell herself?). A disappointed suitor and/or a brief, ill-conceived infatuation of younger man with older woman. There are at least two romances to work out, an older couple and a younger one with mild crises along the way. A closing of ranks among the women vs. “the Incubus” ...