FEATURED AUTHOR - Philip Booker lives in southern Idaho with his wife Katey, his step-daughter CaraLee, two cats, a dog, and a ton of fish. Philip has been writing stories since third grade when he decided he wanted to be an author. While he has written many short stories, Smoke in the Wind was his first completed novel. As our Author of the Day, Booker tells us all about this book.
Paul Maddox’s book reviews
The book, and indeed the set, take you on a journey through 1920's and 30's high society, along with its false politeness and cutting sarcasm.
This book, rather like Queen Lucia, starts off rather slow, with E.F. Benson providing the descriptive canvas that the rest of the book builds on. This makes the rest of the book much more enjoyable in my mind, and is well worth investment, so don't let it put you off.
Mapp & Lucia is arguably E.F. Benson's best work, and certainly his most reknown. The whole set are thoroughly enjoyable and I found myself reading jumping from one book to the next instantly.
As I mentioned, there are six books, but only two available on ManyBooks, due to copyright issues with Gutenberg Australia. However:
**You can get the rest of the books directly from gutenberg.net.au free.**
Au reservoir.
* Although some say this is the second book, you may find it referenced as the third. In reprints with Miss Mapp as the third book the set of six possibly flow slightly better. I read it second, and it didn't feel I lost out because of it.
The book, and indeed the set, take you on a journey through 1920's and 30's high society, along with its false politeness, cutting sarcasm and short lived fads.
I found the book starts off rather slow, with E.F. Benson providing the descriptive canvas that the rest of the book builds on. This makes the rest of the book much more enjoyable in my mind, and is well worth investment, so don't let it put you off.
Mapp & Lucia is arguably E.F. Benson's best work, and certainly his most reknown. The whole set are thoroughly enjoyable and I found myself reading jumping from one book to the next instantly.
As I mentioned, there are six books, but only two available on ManyBooks, due to copyright issues with Gutenberg Australia. However:
**You can get the rest of the books directly from gutenberg.net.au free.**
Au reservoir.