Minnie’s Room: The Peacetime Stories of Mollie Panter-Downes Gift Wrapping:Reusable fabric napkin all the family does know

all the family does know is that he died in Germany and is listed as having 'died in France'

The passage where he surreptitiously watches his youngest child learning to use an egg-whisk it is a classic in the literature of childhood

but it is a feat indeed to make a short story into a page-turner since normally a story is a photograph

As Ford Madox Ford (author of Parade’s End and The Good Soldier) wrote in his review of this ‘very clever and very observant book’ in March 1914: ‘It shows us the household of a great employer of labour

They would have been even more disapproving if they had known that Tilli was keeping what was in effect a diary: the discovery of the letters would certainly have resulted in her and her husband's arrest

Minnie’s Room: The Peacetime Stories of Mollie Panter-Downes Gift Wrapping:Reusable fabric napkin all the family does knowWITH A PUBLISHER'S NOTE 144pp ISBN 9781903155240 A companion volume to Persephone book No. 8 Good Evening, Mrs Craven: The Wartime Stories of Mollie Panter Downes, Minnie's Room contains ten stories written between 1947 and 1965, each of them describing an aspect of life in Britain in the years after World War Two. The title story 'Minnie's Room' was the first thing the author wrote after finishing One Fine Day, which is in our view one of the great