Six writers chosen for the outstanding quality of their writing whose work we deeply love – and their six greatest books. Origo’s memoir of her life in Tuscany, farming difficult land and improving conditions for the local contadini, culminates in her experiences during WW2 during the Germany occupation, fleeing the front with a gaggle of local children she had taken in. The other five are novels, all delicious in their various ways: Ibbotson’s deceptively easy romance, Hazzard’s masterpiece, Fitzgerald’s strange and lyrical incursion into Russia, Townsend Warner’s wonderfully conceived drama of a woman slowly finding her independence and vocation, and Trapido’s marvellous tragi-comedy of manners, errors and love.

This bundle includes:

The Brother of the More Famous Jack, Barbara Trapido
Images and Shadows, Iris Origo
Magic Flutes, Eva Ibbotson
Lolly Willowes, Sylvia Townsend Warner
The Beginning of Spring, Penelope Fitzgerald
Transit of Venus, Shirley Hazzard

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