Tag: Ada Leverson

• A Sparkling Comedy of Manners

  The blurb on the back describes Love’s Shadow, by Ada Leverson, as ‘a wry, sparkling comedy of manners’ and, just for once, the blurb is quite right – the novel, a social satire on well-to-do Edwardian life, is light, witty, humorous, and very enjoyable. It’s another of those forgotten classics published in The Bloomsbury Group…

  chrisharding53

  July 3, 2012

  Ada Leverson, Edwardian comedy of manners, love, Love’s Shadow

• The Summer Reading Pile

  Well, Midsummer’s Day has been and gone, though the weather has been so dreadful if feels as if summer has never even arrived. June is over, and July is here. And even if the weather doesn’t improve, I can curl up on the sofa and tackle the TBR pile, which should last me well into…

  chrisharding53

  July 2, 2012

  Ada Leverson, Canada, Dancing Penguin, EM Delafild, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, Paris, Penguin Dust Jacket, Summer reading, TH White, To Be Read, Tove Jansson