One Fine Day by Panter-Downes, Mollie

One Fine Day

It's a summer's day in 1946. The English village of Wealding is no longer troubled by distant...
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Author: Mollie Panter-Downes
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One Fine Day by Panter-Downes, Mollie

One Fine Day

$27.64

One Fine Day

$27.64
Author: Mollie Panter-Downes
Format: Paperback
Language: English

It's a summer's day in 1946. The English village of Wealding is no longer troubled by distant sirens, yet the rustling coils of barbed wire are a reminder that something, some quality of life, has evaporated. Together again after years of separation, Laura and Stephen Marshall and their daughter Victoria, are forced to manage without "those anonymous caps and aprons who lived out of sight and pulled the strings." Their rambling garden refuses to be tamed, the house seems perceptibly to crumble. But alone on a hillside, as evening falls, Laura comes to see what it would have meant if the war had been lost, and looks to the future with a new hope and optimism.  

First published in 1947, this subtle, finely wrought novel presents a memorable portrait of the aftermath of war, its effect upon a marriage, and the gradual but significant change in the nature of English middle-class life.



Author: Mollie Panter-Downes
Publisher: Union Square & Co.
Published: 05/06/2025
Pages: 184
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781454959540

About the Author
Mollie Panter-Downes (1906-1997) wrote her first novel, a huge bestseller, when she was only seventeen. She went on to find a more enduring literary fame as a writer for The New Yorker, which published over 850 individual pieces of her coverage of the British home front in WWII. Unfairly overlooked for many years, save for a valiant campaign by Persephone Books (UK), which published two volumes of her wartime writing, Mollie is long overdue a revival. 

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