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Much Dithering
Paperback
Publisher Price: $16.99
ISBN13: 9781913527334
Publisher: Dean Street Pr
Published: Aug 3 2020
Pages: 204
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.47 Width: 5.06 Depth: 7.81
Language: English
The most striking thing about Much Dithering was its peacefulness. The few people who saw it from charabancs on morning or evening or circular drives said: Isn't it peaceful? or Isn't it quiet?. And some said they thought it was a lovely place to be buried in, but while they were alive they preferred a place with more life, if you knew what they meant.
The unlikely heroine of this delightful comedy of manners is Jocelyn Renshawe, young widow of the local squire, a specimen of human cabbage who fitted into her surroundings so completely that she was hardly noticeable. But she's about to be noticed a bit more-by her jaded, much-widowed mother Ermyntrude, who breezes in on the look-out for her next conquest; by her aunt and mother-in-law, who have decided she should marry Colonel Tidmarsh, an elderly (and extremely dull) retired Army man; and by Gervase Blythe, a mysterious acquaintance of Colonel Tidmarsh's, who arrives in town and rescues Jocelyn from a rainstorm before coming under suspicion as a jewel thief.
One is safe in assuming that Jocelyn is about to leave her mouldering existence behind, but how she does so is the sparkling, cheerful plot of Much Dithering.
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