![]() ![]() The darkest of Crompton’s books to be republished is Leadon Hill. Austen’s Emma Woodhouse would find a companion in arms in Norma Felicity Montague Harborough, the heroine of Felicity Stands By, Sanders said, thanks to Norma’s misguided matchmaking attempts. ![]() ![]() “They are almost like soap operas, featuring divorce, infidelity and, in every one, a narcissistic character totally lacking in empathy.”Īlthough not rumbustious like the Just William books, Sanders said Crompton revealed a wry sense of humour in the novels, which she likened to Jane Austen’s social observation. “These are much darker than her children’s books and reveal a rather gloomy outlook on life,” said Sanders, publisher of Bello, a digital imprint of Macmillan, which published the titles this week. Featuring sharp-eyed spinsters, young women frustrated by the bounds of convention and hapless but well-meaning sleuths, the titles provide the flipside to English village life so evocatively captured in Crompton’s children’s books. Her comic creation went on to eclipse these works aimed at older readers, but they were bestsellers when they first appeared. The eight books are part of a forgotten backlist written by Crompton before the second world war. ![]()
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