Mariana by Monica Dickens

Mariana by Monica Dickens

Mariana (1940) is the story of a young English girl's growth towards maturity and happiness in the 1930s. We are shown Mary at school in Kensington and on holiday at her beloved Charbury; her attempt at drama school; her year in Paris learning dressmaking and getting engaged to the wrong man; her time as a secretary and companion.\nLike Dusty Answer, Rebecca, I Capture the Castle or The Pursuit of Love, this is one of those novels about a young girl growing up and encountering life and love which all have the common characteristic of being funny, readable and yet perceptive. They are 'hot-water bottle' novels - books to curl up with on the sofa with a rug and a cup of tea and a bar of chocolate on a wet Saturday afternoon.\nBut Mariana is more than this. As the Observer's Harriet Lane wrote in her Preface, critics may have tended 'to dismiss its subject matter: crushes, horses, raffish uncles, frocks, inconsequential jobs, love affairs...but it is Mariana's artlessness, its enthusias'

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