The diary of a provincial lady

It's not easy, being a provincial lady in Devonshire as the 1930s dawn. To keep hearth and home ticking over smoothly, our heroine must juggle the futile search for a reliable house-parlourmaid (resulting in the appointment of a house-parlourMAN); keeping up appearances of a respectable lifestyle (even if it means pawning her jewellery); and the Sisephyan endeavour of coaxing flower-bulbs to sprout (despite the best efforts of mice, cat, and bewi...