![]() ![]() The suburbs, when suggested to her by estate agents, are completely out of the question: It begins with a move to the country after having discovered she can’t afford anything suitable in town. In doing so, she realises she will have to leave her beloved London flat (no children allowed) and, at least for the next four years until he can be sent to boarding school, completely upend her well-ordered life. ![]() And if that is the case, she begins to wonder, what is the point of the whirlwind social life among artists and other bright young things, and the obsession with powdering, plucking, and painting herself into a modern beauty?Īnd so, in search of a purpose, she decides to adopt an orphaned four-year old boy (Pat) whom her aunt has unexpectedly been left in charge with. ![]() Yes, they flirt with her and try to get her into bed but when she meets a man she’d actually like to fall in love with – nothing. Published in 1933 (but recently reissued), the book begins several years earlier as twenty-nine-year old Lesley comes to a startling realisation after a dud of a date: she is not a woman that men fall in love with. ![]() What is this delightful, joyful, life-changing (at least in my attitude towards its author) book you may ask? The Flowering Thorn by Margery Sharp. I have a new book on my list of favourites and, much to my surprise, it’s by an author whose writing I had previously described as “ a long-winded mess” and “ a chore to work through to the finish”. ![]()
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