Nightingale Wood

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The daughter of a London doctor, Gibbons had a turbulent and often unhappy childhood. After an indifferent school career she trained as a journalist, and worked as a reporter and features writer, mainly for the Evening Standard and The Lady. Her first book, published in 1930, was a collection of poems which was well received, and through her life she considered herself primarily a poet rather than a novelist. After Cold Comfort Farm, a satire on the genre of rural-themed "loam and lovechild" novels popular in the late 1920s, most of Gibbons's novels were based within the middle-class suburban world with which she was familiar. The economy and population of Swindon expanded rapidly through the latter half of the 19th century largely due to its potential as a transport hub. First came the Wilts & Berks canal from Abingdon-on-Thames to reach the Kennet and Avon canal in mid-Wiltshire. This (shown in blue on the map) passes south of the village and originally ran through into Swindon town centre. It took 15 years to complete with the official Opening Ceremony being conducted on 14th September 1810. The canal was abandoned in 1914 but the Wilts & Berks Canal Trust is gradually restoring parts of it. Safeguarding the built heritage is also important and the listed buildings in or close to the village include Nightingale Farm, Longleaze Farm, Manor Farmhouse, Red House, Church Farmhouse, Gordon Cottage and, of course, the oldest building in South Marston – the church of St Mary Magdelene. Gibbons as the 20th century's Austen is an opinion not shared by the writer Alexander McCall Smith, who suggests that this accolade belongs to Barbara Pym. [82] Gibbons is a new experience for me. this is like the anti-romance novel, for the most part. but not just romance of the boy-girl kind--she writes quite clear-eyed about money and its corrosive effects; about living (or not-quite-living) in a stultifying society; about how small-town life can make a person, well, small. only the natural world gets a pass.

The book I read was called The Secret of Nightingale Wood by Lucy Strange. I think it was the VERY best out of the lot. I REALLY enjoyed reading this book because it was full of amazing similes and super writing. It always keeps you thinking and powers your imagination. When I first started reading this book I just couldn’t put it down! I have suggested this book to literally EVERYONE in my class! I think it is the best book I have read so far. Tina & Saxon, Viola & Victor, Hetty & her books, Madge & her kennel, even Saxon's mother and the Hermit...each of them found their own brand of contentment, doing their best to live happily in a world that doesn' La verdadera baza de estas es, entonces, conseguir ganar una clientela fija mediante la elección de unos títulos muy reconocibles para esos clientes y mantenerse fieles a esta filosofía y, si da la casualidad, pegar un bombazo que te aúpe a un número mayor de potenciales. En el caso de Impedimenta (su web está por aquí y podéis echarle un vistazo), podemos encontrar todas estas características:

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I can’t express my feelings for this book, it is just so good. If you want a good, old fashioned war story, then this is for you. I would like to know if the author, Lucy Strange, has written any more books like this. The history of it makes me want to visit a house similar to the Hope House. The language is captivating and bewitching; I would love if there were a sequel. Lucy Strange has been successful in writing a piece of heart-felt literature.

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Most people know Stella Gibbons only from her brief first novel, Cold Comfort Farm, a book I have several times started but could never finish. So I began Nightingale Wood in a doubtful spirit. That didn’t last long. During the remainder of the 1930s Gibbons produced five more novels, as well as two poetry collections, a children's book, and a number of short stories. [43] From November 1936 the family home was in Oakshott Avenue, on the Holly Lodge Estate off Highgate West Hill, where Gibbons regularly worked in the mornings from ten until lunchtime. [44] Her novels were generally well received by critics and the public, though none earned the accolades or attention that had been given to Cold Comfort Farm; [6] readers of The Times were specifically warned not to expect Gibbons's second novel, Bassett (1934), to be a repetition of the earlier masterpiece. [45] Enbury Heath (1935) is a relatively faithful account of her childhood and early adult life with, according to Oliver, "only the thinnest veil of fictional gauze cover[ing] raw experience". [46] Miss Linsey and Pa (1936) was thought by Nicola Beauman, in her analysis of women writers from 1914 to 1939, to parody Radclyffe Hall's 1928 lesbian novel The Well of Loneliness. [47] Gibbons's final prewar novels were Nightingale Wood (1935)—"Cinderella brought right up to date"—and My American (1939), which Oliver considers her most escapist novel, "a variant of Hans Christian Andersen's The Snow Queen." [48]

Every year, in the fulness o' summer, when the sukebind hangs heavy from the wains... 'tes the same. And when the spring comes her hour is upon her again... 'Tes the hand of Nature and we women cannot escape it." I loved Cold Comfort Farm, Gibbons' debut novel (the film is also wonderful, if you haven't seen it), so I was excited to hear about this book - I never thought to look into it but Gibbons wrote quite a few novels in her day; this is her ninth. And, written and set prior to the outbreak of WWII, it was perfect for the currently-running 1930s Mini-Challenge (hosted by things mean a lot). Writ on Water": A Stella Gibbons manuscript now on display at the Keats-Shelley House". Keats-Shelley House Museum. Archived from the original on 16 November 2013 . Retrieved 12 November 2013. Impedimenta, fundada en el año 2007 en Madrid por Enrique Redel, aspira a recuperar y redescubrir aquellas obras literarias esenciales para poder disfrutar de nuestro largo camino como lectores: obras que se lean, que se disfruten y que se guarden.” It would have been very easy for the story to centre on Viola meeting Victor, following the standard boy-meets-girl trope. Viola has pined after Victor from afar (far afar) since her shop-girl days, but never with any expectation of actually speaking to him, let alone becoming acquainted. However, Gibbons shows early on that she is taking her Cinderella in her own direction and not afraid to poke some holes in the illusion. Her version of the story emphasises the contemporary social barriers enforced by class divisions, snobbery and gender inequality. Even when Viola and Victor dance together at the Infirmary Ball, it is not so simple as love-at-first-sight. Victor's intentions are not necessarily honorable, since Viola has a past which makes her ineligible as a bride but which just might make her fair game for a seduction: 'Yes..of course, she was a widow. He had forgotten that. She looked the very image of innocence, she talked like a schoolgirl, but widows were not innocent. However young and simple a widow might seem, you could not get away from the fact that widows, presumably, were not…Well this girl was actually more experienced than old Phyl'. This Prince Charming is not quite the gentleman.

Nightingale Wood is like Barbie and Ken meet Cinderella. Viola and Victor are so pathetic, yet you can’t help but be entertained by their banter. Here’s a sampling: Gibbons's writing has been praised by critics for its perspicacity, sense of fun, charm, wit and descriptive skill—the last a product of her journalistic training—which she used to convey both atmosphere and character. [82] [83] Although Beauman refers to "malicious wit", [84] Truss sees no cruelty in the often barbed humour, which reflected Gibbons's detestation of pomposity and pretence. [82] [85] Truss has described Gibbons as "the Jane Austen of the 20th century", [82] [n 7] a parallel which the novelist Malcolm Bradbury thought apt; Flora Poste in Cold Comfort Farm, with her "higher common sense", is "a Jane-ite heroine transformed into a clear-eyed modern woman". Bradbury also observed that many of Gibbons's novels end in Austen-like nuptials. [86]