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		<title>Greengates</title>
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		<title>Diary Of A Provincial Lady</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[The goal of the provincial lady is to maintain 'niceness', whether it be in the home, relationships or personal behaviour. 'The Diary of a Provincial Lady' first published in the 1930s is a witty celebration of the suburban British housewife. in wartime.]]></description>
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		<title>Persephone Book Of Short Stories</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In this sharp, unsentimental domestic comedy, the weather is something less than cheerful the day Dolly Thatcham marries the Hon Owen Bingham.]]></description>
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					<description><![CDATA[Avery North has been contentedly married to Ellen for 20 years, they have two children and live in the rural commuter belt outside London. Then his mother advertises for a companion, and the French girl who arrives sets her sights on Avery, callously threatening the happy marriage.]]></description>
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		<title>Dimanche &#038; Other Stories</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[The first collection of short stories by IrÃ¨ne NÃ©mirovsky to appear in English, this volume features stories that deal with conflict between generations during the bourgeois period and the events of 1940 in France.]]></description>
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					<description><![CDATA[Mollie Panter-Downes was noted for her wit, perception and incisiveness thanks to her reflections on English domestic life during the war years. This collection of her short stories explores the common themes of the day, discussing fear, separation, evacuations and the wartime obsession with food.]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In this work, Streatfeild casually and intuitively anticipates many of the findings of developmental psychology over the past 50 years. A study of the disintegration of middle-class family during the turmoil of the Second World War, 'Saplings' was a ten-part serial on BBC Radio 4 in 2004.]]></description>
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