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Category: E M Delafield

  • This book always makes my list of top ten favourite titles.   Others may come and go but the Diary of a Provincial Lady is always there and always will be as I can never imagine tiring of reading it.   I start reading it and the familiar phrases unfold before me. The extract below from the…

  • As well as bringing us the joy that is the Classic Crime novels, the British Library is now producing a wonderful list of books in their Women Writers series. Many of these women I discovered years ago and am now delighted that some more of them are becoming available. I have spent many happy hours…

  • I have had a very busy year being much more involved with family and grandchildren, helping move, childcare and visiting and, hence, for the first time in over five years I have read less than 200 books. I am at my lowest with the total for 2014 being 164. I also find that this year…

  • This book always makes my list of top ten favourite titles.   Others may come and go but the Diary of a Provincial Lady is always there and always will be as I can never imagine tiring of reading it.   This year EM Delafield is out of copyright and I am hoping that many of her…

  • I hear that the title of this post is the case. I am simply delighted if this is so and look forward to many of her titles being reprinted and more easily available.   Diary of a Provincial Lady remains one of my all time favourite books which I re-read constantly with equal delight every single…