Lolly Willowes or The Loving Huntsman (Paperback)

from laytonwoman3rd

Well, this was strange yet wonderful. Laura Willowes was set to be the quintessential "auntie" of English life; unmarried, unappealing to the opposite sex (and uninterested in it as well), living with her brother, adored by his children, useful to his wife. But niggling in the back of her mind wa...

from AlexTheHunn

What a surprising and delightful book. This is about a woman who does not conform, does not fit the respectable mold, and who manages to persevere and even flourish as a result. This is not a typical "be true to yourself and everything will work out alright" tale, even though there are certainly ...

from k6gst

Laura Willowes is a spinster aunt who stuns her family by fleeing their home to move to the remote Chiltern Hills village of Great Mop for no apparent reason other than that she was captivated by the smell of some beech leaves in a London florist shop, redolent of “dark rustling woods,” that came...

from laytonwoman3rd

Well, this was strange yet wonderful. Laura Willowes was set to be the quintessential "auntie" of English life; unmarried, unappealing to the opposite sex (and uninterested in it as well), living with her brother, adored by his children, useful to his wife. But niggling in the back of her mind wa...

from BeyondEdenRock

Laura Willowes was a much loved daughter, she grew up happily in the country, and she became the kind of countrywoman whose life moved with the rhythms of nature in the way that lives had for generations. But when her beloved father died she became a 'spare woman' and her life was taken over by h...