Miss Mole

E.H. Young, Lucy Scholes

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Virago
09 February 2021

Fiction & Literature; Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Series: Virago Modern Classics

'Young is a sharp and funny writer with a brilliant eye for moral fudging and verbal hypocrisy, and she has a splendid foil in Miss Mole' Sally Beauman

WINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLACK MEMORIAL PRIZE

'Who would suspect her sense of fun and irony, of a passionate love for beauty and the power to drag it from its hidden places? Who would imagine that Miss Mole had pictured herself, at different times, as an explorer in strange lands, as a lady wrapped in luxury and delicate garments?'

Miss Hannah Mole has for twenty years earned her living precariously as a governess or companion to a succession of difficult old women.

Now, aged forty, a thin and shabby figure, she returns to Radstowe, the lovely city of her youth. Here she is, if not exactly welcomed, at least employed as housekeeper by the pompous Reverend Robert Corder, whose daughters are sorely in need of guidance. But even the dreariest situation can be transformed into an adventure by the indomitable Miss Mole. Blessed with imagination, wit and intelligence, she wins the affection of Ethel and her nervous sister Ruth. But her past holds a secret that, if brought to life, would jeopardise everything.

By: E.H. Young
Introduction by: Lucy Scholes
Imprint: Virago
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 196mm, Width: 124mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 280g
ISBN: 9780349014135
ISBN 10: 0349014132
Series: Virago Modern Classics
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 09 February 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Emily Hilda Young (1880-1949) was born in Northumberland, the daughter of a ship-broker. She was educated at Gateshead High School and Penrhos College, Colwyn Bay, Wales. In 1902, after her marriage to solicitor, J.A.H. Daniell, she went to live in Bristol, which was to become the setting of most of her novels.