Miss Buncle's Book

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But some people in the village are up in arms because they don’t like the way they are characterized.

A recent comment on Sherwood Smith's review of this book brought it to my attention (via GoodReads' odd feed dynamic). Miss Barbara Buncle is a spinster living with her once-nanny-then maid, now maid-housekeeper-cook Dorcas in Silverstream. Tatsächlich schildert sie die Ereignisse und Einwohner ihres Dorfes und zwar so gut, dass alle ihr Dorf und ihre Nachbarn sofort erkennen, aber natürlich sich selbst nicht, denn so klar haben sie sich selbst noch nie gesehen. There are just few respectable ways for an unmarried woman living in a small English village of Silverstream in the 1930s to earn income.However she also didn't foresee that some of those with an exaggerated sense of their own dignity would want her punished!

Obviously this is not everyone's cup of tea, but is was definitely mine and I shall read further adventures of Miss Buncle with unadulterated pleasure.This descendant of Robert Louis Stevenson has the same cunning skill in constructing characters by the use of dialogue and action. While the finger is pointed at many local residents no one even considers that frumpy ol' Miss Buncle could have ever had the ability to pull this book off.