Guard Your Daughters Gift Wrapping:None For this author has successfully

For this author has successfully attempted an extremely difficult literary feat: she has essayed simply to describe the day-to-day life of a middle-class English family

Yet like Etty Hillesum’s An Interrupted Life

as they go through one of the most ordinary yet astonishing rituals of life

The Cookbook has ten of Mrs Rundell’s recipes: for beef-steak pudding

exported to the USA during the early 1920s

Guard Your Daughters Gift Wrapping:None For this author has successfullyWITH A PUBLISHER'S AFTERWORD 272pp ISBN 9781910263150 Guard Your Daughters by Diana Tutton is a 1953 novel about a family of five daughters living in the country or rather four daughters since one has recently escaped by marrying and it is Morgan, Cressida, Teresa and Thisbe who are still at home with their parents. Their mother stops her daughters going to school or making friends. But because she tends to make scenes or retire to bed, her family do