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Wild Strawberries (Transaction Large Print Books) Hardcover – Large Print, January 1, 1992

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An amusing assortment of houseguests ensures that Lady Emily Leslie's summer at Rushwater house is never boring. (General Fiction).
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  1. Language
    English
  2. Publisher
    Isis Large Print Books
  3. Publication date
    January 1, 1992
  4. ISBN-10
    1850892946
  5. ISBN-13
    978-1850892946
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Isis Large Print Books (January 1, 1992)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1850892946
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1850892946
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.1 pounds
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 232 ratings

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4.2 out of 5 stars
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Ellen Archer
5.0 out of 5 stars The Pleasures of reading Wild Strawberries
Reviewed in the United States on April 6, 2018
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A delightful, humour book that calls to mind a different time and world. As an American, it appealed to my fantasy of a rural England with its hierarchies and pastoral content. The people seem from another time as well as appealing to today's biting wit. I am a huge fan of Thirkell. I find her hilarious. Beneath the bucolic surface, people are as snarky as ever. Altogether a pleasure to read.
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Kathleen Thorn Randall
4.0 out of 5 stars lord, what a . . . mess? mix-up?, mis -understanding?
Reviewed in the United States on January 31, 2024
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In this second excursion to Barset, young Mary Preston arrives to spend the summer with her Aunt Agnes who is staying with HER mother the redoubtable Lady Emily Leslie, her bull- breeding husband Henry Leslie and their two sons John, the senior, and widowed after only one year of marriage, David, the younger, man about town, and grandson, Martin. Add in Agnes’ 3 children, 2 Nannie’s, a veritable army of household staff AND the French family renting the vicarage for the month of August, you have quite a cast of characters. Not to mention the boring Mr. Holt, the Bingham cousins and a few various others.

lane Emily is entirely scatterbrained, as is, in her own way, Aunt Agnes, and even out heroine, Mary Preston. But all amusing and pleasant.
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Sushma Rao
5.0 out of 5 stars Full of old world charm
Reviewed in the United States on November 4, 2020
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A light and engaging feel-good read that transports you to the English countryside. It is filled with light family drama punctuated by moments of hilarity and surprising poignancy that catch you unawares. Comforting and entertaining. I'm off to find more by this gifted author.
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Tulipsaki
3.0 out of 5 stars Great book, shoddy publishing
Reviewed in the United States on July 27, 2008
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I really don't understand why the publishers had to ruin some of the lines and mess up the chapters so that one gets distracted by what is obviously bad editing (or no editing) and rotten typing. It's like no one proofread anything and it makes it harder to enjoy what ought to be an excellent example of English humour.
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Katherine Benefield
5.0 out of 5 stars Well done.
Reviewed in the United States on May 29, 2019
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Delightful book.
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Redhead
4.0 out of 5 stars It is lovely to be back in Barestshire
Reviewed in the United States on July 6, 2009
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I really liked this book, I would describe it as a fizzy screwball comedy. And I mean that in the best way, just like the great 30's comedys this book bounces along with charm. I have always loved the british comedy of manners books and I really like this and will try other novels in the series.
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Martha K.
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2016
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Love Angela Thirkell!
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Annandale
2.0 out of 5 stars What a Letdown
Reviewed in the United States on April 27, 2024
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After the delightful High Rising by the same author. Wild Strawberries lacks all the wit, charm and humor of Thirkell’s first book, not to mention its deft plotting. Lady Emily, who is apparently supposed to be a bringer of hilarity, is in reality suffering from rather severe dementia, and is very trying to read about. How any of the other characters, especially the servants, can tolerate her untreated condition with equanimity is beyond this reader. Ditto the witless Mary, the heroine of the book, whose cluelessness is monumental and more appropriate for living in 1834 vice 1934. Although certainly Elizabeth Bennett would have run rings around her. Ah, and lovely Aunt Agnes, who seems likely to have inherited her mother’s dementia gene and is just barely living in the real world because of her children. The only truly funny lines come at the very end of the book at the expense of a very hungry French girl and a female Oxford grad who, Thirkell makes clear, has no real feminine feelings because she is over educated. And beware the rather shocking racist interlude, which includes the “n” word, and the overuse of the word “delicious” to describe everything but food. Thirkell’s casual anti-Semitic slurs in High Rising are also repellent, but don’t reach the level of the moronic David’s minstrel song, and at least are drowned in an overall very funny book. Hard to believe the same author wrote both books, especially inasmuch as High Rising is crowded with strong female characters. There are none in Wild Strawberries. Ditto for the male characters.
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Tant le desiree
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 11, 2015
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A delightful novel.
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