One Fine Day (VMC) ebook

by Mollie Panter-Downes

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It's a summer's day in 1946.

Mollie Panter-Downes. Nothing more vivid has been written about those early days of soft sunshine when it was hard to disentangle the dream from the reality, a long summer afternoon in which fantasy flourished, and the barrage balloons glittered like swollen fairy elephants lolling against the blue.

Mary Patricia "Mollie" Panter-Downes (25 August 1906 – 22 January 1997) was a British novelist and columnist for The New Yorker. Her second novel The Chase was published in 1925. She was born to Major Edward Martin Panter-Downes (died 1914 at Mons) and Marie Kathleen Cowley who was of Irish origin

Mollie Panter Downes doesn’t limit her story to a plot driven domestic drama, although a small middle class family .

Mollie Panter Downes doesn’t limit her story to a plot driven domestic drama, although a small middle class family are the focus. She is a superb observer of people and communities, and demonstrates an astute understanding for the challenges for people coming out of a long, uncertain conflict. A novel, taking place over the course of one day is a difficult thing to achieve – yet in Mollie Panter-Downes’s hands it seems effortless, the past and present weave together, as she reveals the world of her characters. We get a sense of Laura’s upbringing – the man her mother wanted her to marry.

I read One Fine Day fresh from reading The Verneys, moving from England in the seventeenth century to England in the . I enjoyed the contrast between the books, one non-fiction and the other a novel.

I read One Fine Day fresh from reading The Verneys, moving from England in the seventeenth century to England in the twentieth century; from one century dominated by the English Civil War to a century divided in two by the Second World Wa. . I’m also very fond of the cover of my copy of One Fine Day. One Fine Day is a beautiful, poetic novel about England in 1946 after the Second World War had ended. It was written in 1946 and published in 1947 and although it recalls an England that had disappeared with the war it also looks forward with optimism to the future.

Mollie Panter-Downes died in Compton, Surrey, aged 90. Republished in 2002 by Persephone Books Republished in 1999 by Persephone . It's a summer's day in 1946 ) It's a summer's day in 1946. Republished in 2002 by Persephone Books Republished in 1999 by Persephone Books.

Author(s): Mollie Panter-Downes. Mollie Panter-Downes was born in London in 1906 and died in 1997. Publisher: Virago Press Ltd. Binding: Paperback. Publication Date: 1985-11-11. item 4 One Fine Day (Virago modern classics) by Mollie Panter-Downes, NEW Book, FREE & -One Fine Day (Virago modern classics) by Mollie Panter-Downes, NEW Book, FREE &. In 1939 she began her distinguished London correspondence for THE NEW YORKER. Country of Publication. It is 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

Mollie Panter-Downes. 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

It is 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, charting, too, a gradual but significant change in the nature of English middle-class life.

Meztisho

This book is a forgotten little masterpiece. It describes one hot summer day in the life of a 38-year-old woman, full of nostalgic, elegiac longing. It's 1946 in a beautiful house in a perfect English village. The problem is that Laura and Stephen lived here before the war with two maids, a cook, a gardener and a nanny and now they only have themselves. She is a sweet, loyal, beautiful woman who has no interest, skill, or energy for housework, least of all in the Age of Rationing. She has reached an age where men no longer stare at her lustily, and that's another thing she must adjust to. The processes of her mind are wonderfully and realistically laid down; it is quite unlike any other book I have read. Recommended highly.

Slowly writer

A brief, subtle, but wonderful evocation of immediate postwar rural England--through the lens of a small family (and mostly through the thoughts of the young wife), in one village, but touching on class, economics, the war, and years of history, compressed into the loving depiction of "one fine [summer's] day."

Galanjov

My but this is a well written book about a couple trying to pick up their lives after WWII. Just a delight to read; every word carefully chosen. Perfect images. Highly recommend it.

Onaxan

Once again my favorite genre of times during and after WWII in England. This small book is one of my favorites and remarkable that the story takes place all in one day. The main character's descriptions of places around her and of people are unlike any I have read before. They often made me laugh to myself and wanted to write them down so as to remember them. Great book!

Nuadador

Enjoyed this book as the period immediately post World War II interests me, how England, a country that won a war had so much to cope with as victors. Shortages of everything - food, help, basic commodities. A new world looming for everyone.

Ttexav

Brilliantly written, subtly observed, sympathetic portrait of an English village family finding their way forward after surviving World War II. Wonderfully evocative of a beautiful summer day in the English countryside.

Darksinger

I am a fanatic about this type of book, the country, the time period, and the style of writing and I enjoyed reading about the author and the story itself.

An affecting and realistic look at a day in the life of an upper middle class Englishwoman immediately after WWII. Perceptive description of the adjustments required--to husbands and sons back from the War, to war-related deaths, to economic dislocation, to a return to "normalcy" after six years of utter dislocation. Subtle but vivid descriptions of class and gender consciousness. Unforgettable!