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  • THE MARGERY SHARP COLLECTION VOLUME ONE
    MARGERY SHARP
    Four charming, witty novels—including The Nutmeg Tree—from the "highly gifted" New York Times–bestselling author of Cluny Brown ( The New Yorker).   A master of the twentieth-century comedy of manners , British author Margery Sharp has been praised as "one of the most gifted writers of comedy" ( Chicago Daily News) and "a wonderful entertainer" ( The New Yorker). Available for ...

    $329.00

  • THE MARGERY SHARP COLLECTION VOLUME TWO
    MARGERY SHARP
    This New York Times–bestselling trilogy follows an artistic girl as she grows up to become a painter—from the "highly gifted" author of Cluny Brown ( The New Yorker).   A master of the twentieth-century comedy of manners , British author Margery Sharp has been praised as "one of the most gifted writers of comedy" ( Chicago Daily News) and "a wonderful entertainer" ( The New Yor...

    $329.00

  • CLUNY BROWN
    MARGERY SHARP
    An unconventional parlor maid upends the lives of an aristocratic family in prewar England   Cluny Brown refuses to know her place in society. Last week, she took herself to tea at the Ritz. Then she spent almost an entire day in bed eating oranges. So, to teach her discipline, her uncle, a plumber who has raised the orphaned girl since she was a baby, sends her into service as...

    $164.00

  • THE NUTMEG TREE
    MARGERY SHARP
    In 1930s France, a free-spirited mother undertakes to derail her very proper daughter's engagement   Julia Packett has barely laid eyes on her daughter, Susan, since leaving her with her well-heeled in-laws following the loss of her husband in World War I. Now thirty-seven, Julia's lack of prospects hasn't dimmed her spirit or her appetite for life. But when Susan asks her to c...

    $251.00

  • SOMETHING LIGHT
    MARGERY SHARP
    In 1950s London, a career girl decides it's high time she snared herself a husband   Professional dog photographer Louisa Datchett is indiscriminately fond of men. And they take shocking advantage of her good nature when they need their problems listened to, socks washed, prescriptions filled, or employment found.   But by the age of thirty, Louisa is tired of constantly being ...

    $251.00

  • THE FLOWERING THORN
    MARGERY SHARP
    A Jazz Age socialite impulsively adopts an orphaned boy in this humorous, heartwarming tale   In 1929 London, twenty-eight-year-old Lesley Frewen lives a privileged, cultured life. But one thing is missing: love. When her aunt's female companion suddenly dies, leaving behind a young son, Lesley decides on a whim to adopt four-year-old Patrick—though she doesn't have any particu...

    $149.00

  • THE INNOCENTS
    MARGERY SHARP
    Margery Sharp's most poignant novel, set during World War II and filled with her trademark wit and warmth, tells the story of the powerful bond forged between a British spinster and the unusual little girl left in her care As the threat of war looms, Cecilia and Rab Guthrie leave their young daughter, Antoinette, with a spinster friend in East Anglia, England, so they can enjoy...

    $274.00

  • MARTHA, ERIC, AND GEORGE
    MARGERY SHARP
    After ten years, a successful painter returns to Paris and the son she left behind on her ex-lover's doorstep, in Margery Sharp's sparkling novel that features the artistic heroine of Martha in Paris After studying with le maître in Paris for a year, Martha returned to England to pursue her artistic destiny. Ten years later, she is an enormous success. But when she returns to P...

    $164.00

  • BRITANNIA MEWS
    MARGERY SHARP
    A passionate heroine defies the English class system in this novel set in 1875 London—perfect for lovers of Edith Wharton and Downton Abbey.   Around the corner from the elegant townhouses on Albion Place is Britannia Mews, a squalid neighborhood where servants and coachmen live. In 1875, it's no place for a young girl of fine breeding, but independent-minded Adelaide Culver is...

    $251.00

  • THE GYPSY IN THE PARLOUR
    MARGERY SHARP
    In Victorian England, a glamorous, mysterious young woman overturns the lives of a traditional Devonshire farm family, in Margery Sharp's humorous, heartwarming New York Times–bestselling novel On a farm in Devonshire, during a long hot summer, three women await the arrival of a fourth. The corseted, petticoated Sylvesters are no ordinary females. They are as fair-tempered as t...

    $251.00

  • THE EYE OF LOVE
    MARGERY SHARP
    Margery Sharp's enchanting New York Times–bestselling novel about the profound ways that love can change our view of other people and the world around us Miss Dolores Diver and Harry Gibson have been passionately in love ever since they met at the Chelsea Arts Ball: He came as a brown paper parcel, she as a Spanish dancer. Only the eye of love could have transformed plain Dolor...

    $229.00

  • MARTHA IN PARIS
    MARGERY SHARP
    A young woman learns about painting—and more—in 1940s Paris in this "outrageously funny" novel by the New York Times–bestselling author of The Eye of Love ( Newark Evening News).  Eighteen-year-old Martha is blessed with the opportunity of a lifetime: an all-expenses-paid trip to Paris to study where some of the world's greatest painters lived and worked. Despite her single-min...

    $164.00