{"product_id":"good-evening-mrs-craven-the-wartime-stories-of-mollie-panter-downes-classic-edition","title":"Good Evening, Mrs Craven: The Wartime Stories of Mollie Panter-Downes (Classic edition)","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"std\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-caption\" style=\"text-align: start;\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"Good Evening, Mrs Craven\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/7642\/5795\/files\/classic_Mrs_Craven_cover.jpg?v=1634653946\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePREFACE BY GREGORY LESTAGE\u003cbr\u003e240pp\u003cbr\u003eISBN 9781906462017\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGood Evening, Mrs Craven \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003ereprints twenty-one short stories by Mollie Panter-Downes that were first published in \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe New Yorker \u003c\/em\u003ebetween 1939 and 1945 and (with two exceptions) have never been reprinted - until now.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey are stories of the highest quality which in our view should be set beside those by Elizabeth Bowen, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Elizabeth Taylor.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eIn each and every story, Mollie Panter-Downes uses language with an insight and a poetic sensibility that is the mark of a great writer. 'All over London,' she wrote in 'Fin de Siecle' (12 July 1941), 'telephone bells were ringing angrily through empty rooms over which the fine brick dust, seeping in at shuttered windows, was beginning to settle.'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn these stories Mollie Panter-Downes explores almost every aspect of English domestic life during the war: boredom, separation, sewing parties, fear, evacuees sent to the country and to America, obsession with food, the camraderie of the Blitz, and above all the social revolutions of wartime. Thus in 'Year of Decision' (29 April 1944) the husband expostulates, 'For heaven's sake... It doesn't matter to me or Hitler whether I pick up my pyjamas off a chair or the floor' while his wife persists in her orderly smoothing of the eiderdown 'as though the action were yet another moral shot fired at the slowly advancing enemy.' \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso available as a Persephone Grey, a Persephone eBook and a Persephone Audiobook. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Mollie Panter-Downes","offers":[{"title":"None","offer_id":54098809291059,"sku":"ten1789695066341","price":20.16,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Tissue\/Endpaper","offer_id":54098809323827,"sku":"kgz1789695066342","price":28.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Cambridge Imprint paper","offer_id":54098809356595,"sku":"rry1789695066343","price":29.67,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Reusable fabric napkin","offer_id":54098809389363,"sku":"ztb1789695066344","price":42.48,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0989\/0578\/4627\/files\/good-evening-mrs-craven-the-wartime-stories-of-mollie-panter-downes-classic-edit_1.jpg?v=1789695085","url":"https:\/\/sandstepclad.shop\/products\/good-evening-mrs-craven-the-wartime-stories-of-mollie-panter-downes-classic-edition","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}