#miss buncle's book

[bshocommons]

They had so much to say that they couldn’t find words to say anything at all.

D.E. Stevenson, Miss Buncle's Book

[wordwhile]

Mr Abbot had never before read a novel about a woman who wrote a novel about a woman who wrote a novel — it was like a recurring decimal, he thought, or perhaps even more like a perspective of mirrors such as tailors use, in which the woman and her novel were reflected back and forth to infinity.

DE Stevenson, Miss Buncle’s Book

[thebirdandhersong]

Miss Buncle’s Book was a romp in the woods on a sunny day, and felt like a mix between Wodehouse (the humour, the delight or the sheer absurdity of people being people, also we get to see a range of female characters of different backgrounds/personalities/family situations/ages who play significant parts in the story, which is EXCELLENT) and Georgette Heyer (the Austenian irony, the stress on the importance of levity and understanding and communication and shared laughter in romantic relationships) and I loved it very much

[the-dust-jacket]

[teabooksandsweets]

But a Miss Buncle mini series would be so good! Maybe one just for Miss Buncle’s Book, or the whole trilogy... the story-within-a-story.... the way they are meddled!!! The odd townsfolk... the 30s aesthetic! The proposal ♥ The wit and fluff and cuteness. And the satire. And what a different heroine Barbara is! I wonder who’d be a good fit to play her?

[oldsolidbooks]

So warm and charming! It’s my current read, and my first by D. E. Stevenson. An absolute delight, I am glad there’s two more books about Miss Buncle.

[the-dust-jacket]

[the-dust-jacket]