Amalia's Story, Chapter Thirty-One
= Amalia Angeloni Jacobucci
"Holman’s Phospho-Manuro"
Angela Thirkell Book Summaries #22:
Jutland Cottage!
by Angela Thirkell (1953)
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1945-1953 From World War to Cold War

It is a great relief to find Thirkell confessing that the discrepancies of dates and ages in her Barsetshire Chronicles have gotten so out of hand that she herself is unable to reconcile them.
We thought it was us.
Margot the fortyish, dutiful daughter of the ailing Admiral and Mrs. Phelps is taken in hand by the combined communities of Greshambury and Southbridge.
Spearheaded, to the amazement of all, by Rose Fairweather (née Birkett), the group plans outings and treats ranging from wardrobe items to beauty treatments to
Holman’s Phospho-Manuro.
The last, a gift from Mr. Macfayden, a landscape gardener tycoon, followed shortly by a proposal and acceptance of marriage.
Old friends reappear:
Mrs. Morland shedding hairpins;
Misses Hampton and Bent shedding ambiguities; and the bickering
Vicar ...