Miss Hannah Mole is a spinster nearing forty who earns her living as a companion/ housekeeper. But while some might become quashed and depressed in such circumstances, the outspoken and humourous Miss Mole's personality shines through on every page/5(90). · Who would imagine that Miss Mole had pictured herself, at different times, as an explorer in strange lands, as a lady wrapped in luxury and delicate garments?’ Miss Hannah Mole has for twenty years earned her living precariously as a governess or companion to a succession of difficult old www.doorway.ru, aged forty, a thin and shabby figure, she returns to Radstowe, the lovely city of her www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 5 mins. Miss Mole. E. H. Young. Published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, ISBN ISBN
Born Emily Hilda Young. Although almost completely forgotten by recent generations, E. H. Young was a best-selling novelist of her time. She was born the daughter of a shipbroker and attended Gateshead Secondary School (a higher grade school later renamed Gateshead Grammar School) and Penrhos College, Colwyn Bay, Wales. Buy Miss Mole by E.H. Young, Lucy Scholes from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £ In Miss Mole, winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in , E.H. Young created her most complex, unlikely, yet eminently lovable heroine in a tale packed with rich characters, brilliant humour, and quiet triumph.
Miss Mole by www.doorway.ru Miss Mole was a kind present from Simon at Stuck-in-a-Book, who discovered I'd never read it, happened upon a secondhand copy straight away, and sent it to me. He thought I would enjoy it, and he was entirely right. Hannah Mole is a forty-year-old spinster, the daughter of a Somerset farmer who has earned her living by working in that ambiguous, intermediate form of service that comprises governesses and companions to fretful old ladies. So, Miss Mole is set between the wars and is the story of Hannah Mole, a fortyish spinster who ekes out a living as a companion or housekeeper -- she has a sharp tongue and quirky spirit that sometimes get her into trouble. At the beginning of the novel she's returned after a long absence to the fictional town of Radstowe (which is a thinly disguised portrait of Bristol). E.H. Young. · Rating details · ratings · 75 reviews. Miss Mole is set between the wars and is the story of Hannah Mole, a fortyish spinster who ekes out a living as a companion or housekeeper -- she has a sharp tongue and quirky spirit that sometimes get her into trouble. At the beginning of the novel she's returned after a long absence to the fictional town of Radstowe (which is a thinly disguised portrait of Bristol).
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