Amalia's Story, Chapter Nineteen
= Amalia Angeloni Jacobucci
"Odious"
Angela Thirkell Book Summaries #10:
Northbridge Rectory!
by Angela Thirkell (1941)
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Underground (1941)

Although action is limited to Northbridge Village and nothing of great moment occurs, a more varied assortment of “originals” will not be found in any of Thirkell’s books.
The Rector’s wife, Mrs. Villars, suffering the “dark devotion” of young Lt. Holden, is ostensibly the focus.
However, the permutations of the triangle comprising intellectual Miss Pemberton, her browbeaten boarder, Mr. Downing, and the kindhearted widow, Mrs. Turner, dominate the proceedings.
And then there are the unsettling visits of the odious wife of Major Spender, an officer billeted at the Rectory.
The organization of a parachute spotting patrol in the church tower involves everyone else from the ladies of Glycerine cottage to Miss Hopgood’s Aunt, but the exercise mercifully fades away as Christmas “began to cast an even ...