![]() As Harriet Lane remarks in her Preface: 'It is Mariana's artlessness, its enthusiasm, its attention to tiny, telling domestic detail that makes it so appealing to modern readers.' And John Sandoe Books commented: 'The contemporary detail is superb – Monica Dickens's descriptions of food and clothes are particularly good – and the characters are observed with vitality and humour. We see Mary at school in Kensington and on holiday in Somerset her attempt at drama school her year in Paris learning dressmaking and getting engaged to the wrong man her time as a secretary and companion and her romance with Sam.īut it is also more than this. For that is what it is: the story of a young English girl's growth towards maturity in the 1930s. ![]() Monica Dickens's first book, published in 1940, could easily have been called 'Mariana – an Englishwoman'. ![]() We chose to publish Mariana because we wanted a novel like Dusty Answer, I Capture the Castle or The Pursuit of Love, about a girl encountering life and love, which is also funny, readable and perceptive it is a 'hot-water bottle' novel, one to curl up with on the sofa on a wet Sunday afternoon. ![]()
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