Miss Buncle’s Book Category_Persephone Classics Streatfeild takes a happy

Streatfeild takes a happy

wonderfully-written book very highly

Elisabeth Sanxay Holding beautifully blends the thriller genre with the domestic

and the state of the nation in the 1950s’ writes Amanda Craig in her Persephone Preface

First published in 1932

Miss Buncle’s Book Category_Persephone Classics Streatfeild takes a happyPREFACE BY ALINE TEMPLETON 352pp ISBN 9781903155714 The storyline of Miss Buncle's Book (1934) is a simple one: Barbara Buncle, who is unmarried and perhaps in her late 30s, lives in a small village and writes a novel about it in order to try and supplement her meagre income. In this respect she is at one with Miss Pettigrew and Miss Ranskill, two other unmarried women who, not having subsumed their existence into that of a man, have to find a way of