Miss Buncle's Book

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So it's really funny when various people in town start to read the latest bestseller and realize that THEY ARE IN IT . She was meticulously truthful in all she said (it was almost as if she were on oath to speak the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth all day long and every day of the week). BUT Miss Buncle's Book, Disturber of the Peace (the book within the book), and Barbara Buncle herself are completely charming. Miss Barbara Buncle's dividends have been cut and she is living in her village of Silverstream in a state of genteel poverty.

I was surprised how much I enjoyed the humour in this story and if you live in a small rural English village you will probably enjoy spotting a few of your neighbours in this book, I spotted quite a few. this is the opinion of the villagers not the reader) She has awful grammar, frumpy clothes and a worn house. Written under the pseudonym of John Smith the book sells like hot cakes - especially to her fellow residents of Silverstream - the inspiration for Copperfield.Dies ist ein Buch einer zu ihrer Zeit (erste Hälfte des vorigen Jahrhunderts) sehr erfolgreichen Schriftstellerin, die über lange Jahre nicht mehr gedruckt wurde und deren Bücher nur zu saftigen Sammlerpreisen antiquarisch zu bekommen waren.

Humor, lightness of touch, the ability to plot an enthralling story in fascinating surroundings and to create characters that appeal, convincingly, both to head and heart. But the names are so obvious for some of them that when you add characteristics and quirks that are just like them, people are bound to notice.Absolutely charming in the way that Barbara bungles along, comforting the distressed and distressing the comfortable. Abbott had never before read a novel about a woman who wrote a novel about a woman who wrote a novel—it was like a recurring decimal, he thought, or perhaps even more like a perspective of mirrors such as tailors use, in which the woman and her novel were reflected back and forth to infinity. Hathaway's (new vicar) uncle, the new vicar has turned over all his wealth and earthly goods to his Uncle Mike for the term of one year to see if he can live on the minute stipend he will be earning in Silverstream.

L'excès de bons sentiments peut paraître démodé de nos jours, mais le livre n'en est pas moins divertissant, et le lecteur suit avec intérêt la vie bouleversée de ce village. They were after her now like a pack of hounds, but they didn’t know that the fox was in the very midst of them, under their very noses, disguised as one of themselves – it was a piquant situation and Mr Abbott fully appreciated it. Some of Miss Buncle's word association that I so liked and that was probably what made people start paying attention.By the third book, The Two Mrs Abbotts, it is the war and she has two children, and the focus of the book is less fully on her, but she continues throughout to be a delightful person to spend time watching. Miss Buncle (alias John Smith)'s book Disturber of the Peace becomes a runaway best seller and in quiet Silverstream chuckles--and shrieks of outrage--are heard.

Miss Buncle’s Book is an easy read, very immersive, and I lost myself only too readily in the village life of Silverstream/Copperfield.

the irony is that by insisting the characters are based upon themselves, the villagers, who insist it is libellous are insisting they are as awful as the characters are depicted this element provides so much amusement throughout the book. She sprinkles in some excitement for them and that, as well as her very perceptive eye means that the book is accepted by a publisher. What happens when Barbara's friends and neighbours recognise themselves all too well and decide to try and find out who exactly the author is makes an amusing read. Es justamente lo que esperaba, me ha encantado trasladarme a Silverstream, conocer a sus personajes alocados, sabios y tan diferentes entre sí. Stevenson wrote this book about Miss Buncle writing a book about her fellow villagers, so it's all about its characters.