Love at All Ages

Love and marriage — and delightful eccentrics — thrive in Angela Thirkell’s fictitious English county of Barsetshire. In this novel, Lady Gwendolyn Harcourt, sister of the Duke of Towers, marries elderly Rev. Oriel of Harefield, while a romance prospers between Lord Mellings and Lavinia Merton. “Thirkell’s gently meandering account of the diversions of Barsetshire society leaves nothing to be desired.” — New York Herald Tribune