Tag: Ada Leverson
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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…
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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…