Jane Oliver

Business as Usual (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This classic illustrated novel in letters sure to delight fans of Jane Austen and Winifred Watson.

Hilary Fane is an Edinburgh girl fresh out of university who is determined to support herself by her own earnings in London for a year, despite the mutterings of her surgeon fiancé. After a nervous beginning looking for a job while her savings rapidly diminish, she finds work as a typist in the London department store of Everyman's (a very thin disguise for Selfridges), and rises rapidly through the ranks to work in the library, where she has to enforce modernizing systems on her entrenched and frosty colleagues.

Business as Usual is charming, intelligent, heart-warming, funny, and entertaining. It's deeply interesting as a record of the history of shopping in the 1930s, and fascinating for its unflinching descriptions of social conditions, poverty and illegitimacy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Handheld Press
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. März 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781912766192
• Artikelnr.: 58762887

Autorenporträt

Jane Oliver was the penname of Helen Evans (1903-1970). Formerly Clemence Dane's secretary, she developed a writing career, and wrote many successful novels with Ann Stafford, the penname of Anne Pedler. Business as Usual was their first joint novel. Jane became a pilot and married the author John Llewelyn Rhys, who was killed in the war. She founded the Llewelyn Rhys Prize in his memory. She later lived in Hampshire near Anne Pedler and cared for her in her illness.