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Die verwitwete Mrs Carne lebt mit ihren drei Töchtern in London, in Middle-Class-Verhältnissen. Gemeinsam kultivieren die vier ein eher ungewöhnliches Hobby: sie entwickeln fiktive Freundschaften zu Persönlichkeiten der High Society, z. B. zu einem Theaterschauspieler, zu einem Richter am High Court, zu Lady Toddington. Sie dichten diesen Personen enge, freundschaftliche Beziehungen zu ihrer eigenen Familie an. Als die mittlere Tochter, Deirdre, die echte Lady Toddington auf einem Wohltätigkeitsbasar kennenlernt, droht das gemeinschaftlich entwickelte Fantasiegebilde einzustürzen....

The peacock displayed himself and paraded the lawn, sometimes pausing to look up at the sky.

Waiting? Listening? Guiding. No. Signalling.

Controversial when first published in the early days of World War II, due to its treatment of a loathsome upper-crust family dodging wartime responsibility, A Footman for the Peacock can now be enjoyed as a scathing satire of class abuses, a comic masterpiece falling somewhere between Barbara Pym and Monty Python.

Sir Edmund and Lady Evelyn Roundelay live surrounded by a menagerie of relations and...

In the schoolroom in Lowndes Square, a child, in her ugly, unsuitable frock of plum-coloured satin, cut down when discarded from one of her mother's, bent over the cutting out of a doll and its cardboard wardrobe, and shivered as she worked.

Hilarious, shocking, and heartbreaking in turn, A Harp in Lowndes Square is like no other Rachel Ferguson novel. Perhaps her most personal work - and the closest she ever came to a ghost story - it tells of Vere and James, twins gifted with 'the sight, ' which allows them to see and even experience scenes from the past...

This book was written for those who don't despise children's parties, Edwardian actresses, dancing classes and the scent of lilac over sun-warmed fences.

Barbara Morant spent a crucial part of her childhood in the unremarkable suburban house which lends this novel its name. For her siblings, it's merely a place to live; for her mother, it's a symbol of the provincial drudgery of suburban living. But for Barbara, the house and the routines of those years are invested with a halo of happiness, and she yearns for them long after the family's return to London.

Her...