
A special edition of The Provincial Lady by E M Delafield reissued with a bright retro design to celebrate Pan's 70th anniversary The Provincial Lady should lead a charmed upper-middle class life in her Devonshire village but with a husband reluctant to do anything but doze behind The Times mischievous children & trying servants it's a challenge keeping up appearances on an inadequate income particularly in front of the infuriating & haughty Lady Boxe Delightfully witty the Provincial Lady was the Bridget Jones of the 1930s documenting the chaotic peculiarities of everyday life with wonderful wit & humour This abridged edition takes the very best extracts from her first two diaries' & presents them as one brilliantly comic novel