Tatting and Mandolinata, Faith Compton Mackenzie

Tatting and Mandolinata, Faith Compton MackenzieNew Paperback Tatting was Faith Compton Mackenzie's last novel, and revisits the early years of her marriage living in the parish of an eccentric High Church Anglican vicar in Cornwall, beset by formidable women. Mandolinata was Faith's first book, a collection of fourteen short stories set in Capri, Rome and London, all written in the 1920s, about sex, love and bad marriages. This volume bookends the lost works of this neglected British writer.

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One warden was bitter towards her charges and even boxed a girl's ears

Lyndal Roper paints a vivid picture of their lives

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Arthur and Gwen married young

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It is a story fraught with uncertainty and danger that

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these journeys not only showcase his skill as an angler—including to Norway