Jutland Cottage

Name: Jutland Cottage
Brand: Hachette UK
Availability: InStock
Author: Angela Thirkell
ISBN: 9781405560344

Author: Angela Thirkell

Narrator: Catrin Walker-Booth

Unabridged: 11 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group

Published: 04/10/2025

Categories: Fiction, Classic, Humorous

Synopsis

'Charming, very funny indeed' ALEXANDER McCALL SMITH

Change is in the air in Barsetshire. The country may have a new queen, but Greshambury has a new rector, Canon Fewling, and a returned prodigal daughter: the beautiful, frivolous Rose Fairweather. But for lonely Margot Phelps, caring for her elderly parents in Jutland Cottage, the future holds little promise - until a group of benevolent neighbours, led by Rose, decide to take her under their wing. With a new tweed suit, a little kindness, and not one, but three, potential suitors, could happiness be around the corner at last?

Jutland Cottage is a witty and heartwarming classic in Angela Thirkell's beloved Barsetshire series.

About Angela Thirkell

Angela Thirkell (1890-1961) was the eldest daughter of John William Mackail, a Scottish classical scholar and civil servant, and Margaret Burne-Jones. Her relatives included the pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones, Rudyard Kipling and Stanley Baldwin, and her grandfather was J. M. Barrie. She was educated in London and Paris, and began publishing articles and stories in the 1920s. In 1931 she brought out her first book, a memoir entitled Three Houses, and in 1933 her comic novel High Rising - set in the fictional county of Barsetshire, borrowed from Trollope - met with great success. She went on to write nearly thirty Barsetshire novels, as well as several further works of fiction and non-fiction. She was twice married and had four children.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Eleanor on April 08, 2022

Enjoyable enough, but not up to the standard of some of her earlier novels in the series. No doubt as with any author, it is all being done by rote to some extent, especially as this is the 22nd novel set in Trollope's Barsetshire, but in the mid 20th century instead of the 19th.......more

Goodreads review by Jen on June 23, 2010

Took awhile to get into this one. SO MANY CHARACTERS! But Angela Thirkell still delights me because a few pages into it when I was thinking TOO MANY CHARACTERS, she writes about how her books have too many characters. She cracks me up. We would have definitely been friends.......more

Goodreads review by Elizabeth on January 14, 2023

I'm always interested to see which inhabitants in the very extensive Trollope/Thirkell Barsetshire world will show up in each new novel. We got quite a cross section in this novel, including characters we hadn't seen for a long time, like Mrs. Villars, the John Leslies (though they completely disapp......more