** RECOMMEND **Reviewed on First Tuesday Book Club.
A scathingly funny portrait of society in rural England in the 1930’s.
Flora is such a delicious caricature ... because she is all so real ... yes, she is exaggerated and easy to lampoon but her heart is in the right place.
All the characters are exaggerated and easy to lampoon because that is what the book is all about ... poking fun at the Great Rural Novel (Hardy, Lawrence, the Brontes). And it does so with great relish. It is all about good manners, repressed urges, religion and oddballs.
It is also chock-a-block with repeatable sayings ... like “something nasty in the woodshed”
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