Amalia's Story, Chapter Seventeen
= Amalia Angeloni Jacobucci
"Civilization as we know it”
Angela Thirkell Book Summaries #8:
The Brandons!
by Angela Thirkell (1939)
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Review Of The Year - 1939 (1939)

In one of the last of the pre-war novels (WWII, that is), events center around the Brandons of Stories and Brandon Abbey.
Mrs. Brandon presides over courtship, life, death, inheritance, and misunderstandings resolved.
Whatever happens, and we’re rarely in suspense, it’s the gentle humor and the sharp characterizations of even the minor players which make “getting there half the fun.”
The horror of Mrs. Grant, Hilary’s mother, can be enjoyed because we know she cannot resist an eventual return to sunny Calabria.
And Sir Edmund Pridham, Mrs. Brandon’s elderly “trustee,” who is willing to marry her when he believes she is about to make an “unsuitable” match, but is mightily relieved to discover otherwise—just in the nick of time.
While each book stands ...