Miss Buncle’s Book Category_Persephone Classics In one sense it does

In one sense it does not sound very entertaining

First published in 1932

a junior partner in the law firm of Maresch and Aaronson in Montreal

this is a fascinating and important book even for the town-dweller

the former giving a small nod to the battlefields of the recently ended war and the latter another nod to the optimism and cheeriness of spring-time daffodils and the future

Miss Buncle’s Book Category_Persephone Classics In one sense it doesPREFACE BY ALINE TEMPLETON 352pp ISBN 9781903155714 The storyline of Miss Buncle's Book (1934) is a simple one: Barbara Buncle, who is unmarried and perhaps in her late 30s, lives in a small village and writes a novel about it in order to try and supplement her meagre income. In this respect she is at one with Miss Pettigrew and Miss Ranskill, two other unmarried women who, not having subsumed their existence into that of a man, have to find a way of