The Provincial Lady (Pan 70th Anniversary, Band 6)

70 years of timeless stories. One essential collection.

Meet the Bridget Jones of the 1930s.

The Provincial Lady should lead a charmed, upper-middle class life in her Devonshire village, but with a husband reluctant to do anything but doze behind The Times, mischievous children and trying servants, it's a challenge keeping up appearances on an inadequate income, particularly in front of the infuriating and haughty Lady Boxe.

A cast of colourful characters and incidents illuminates this hilarious portrait of early twentieth-century rural life. So successful was the series that there are four volumes of The Provincial Lady in all, which saw her visit America and survive the Second World War. This edition contains a shortened version of the first two volumes.