Four Graces, The

from starbox

"You drifted on for years...then everything happened at once, things...dissolved before your eyes...and life was new" By sally tarbox on 27 July 2017 Format: Paperback An absolute delight of a book - not great literature but intensely lovely and joyous without being in the least soppy and sentime...

from NewsieQ

I've enjoyed the three Miss Buncle books by D E Stevenson and although, technically, this book is not a Miss Buncle book, it takes place in the same village of Chevis Green and features as secondary characters many familiar folks. The time is the mid-1940s, while World War II is still on. The Fou...

from TadAD

Stevenson's quiet, amusing perspectives on mid-century Britain are not for everyone but I happen to be a fan ever since I first tried Miss Buncle's Book. The Four Graces continues to entertain. I only wish a sequel existed as, like her Mrs. Tim books, I want to know how life went on for the Grace...

from fuzzi

In this fourth and last of the Miss Buncle series we are focused mainly on the local minister Mr. Grace and his four unwed daughters. I found this book a little slow to grab my attention, but it finally did and I enjoyed the rest of my read. I was just a little disappointed that Miss Buncle does ...

from Herenya

The Four Graces is set in the same community as The Two Mrs Abbotts, taking place immediately after that book, and features some of the same characters. And it treats WWII in the same sort of light-hearted, background way as The Two Mrs Abbotts, but here that approached seemed to suit the story. ...