Bøger af E.M. Delafield

"​22. januar: Robert forskrækker mig ved morgenbordet ved at spørge, hvordan det går med min forkølelse – som han hidtil har ignoreret. Jeg svarer, at den er helt væk. ”Hvorfor i alverden ser du så sådan ud?” spørger han. Undlader at spørge, hvad han mener med sådan, for det ved jeg kun alt for godt. Føler, at livet er aldeles uudholdeligt, og træffer vanvittig beslutning om at købe mig en ny hat...""En provinsfrues dagbog" af E.M. Delafield (1890-1943) er blevet læst og genlæst af generationer, siden den udkom i 1930, og kan nu endelig også læses på dansk. Det er ikke for meget sagt, at Delafields provinsfrue er gudmor til både Bridget Jones og danske Nynne. Hendes halvt selvbiografiske dagbogsnotater om livet med karriere, mand og børn er morsomme, selvudleverende, ironiske og ak! - kun alt for genkendelige.

'January 22nd - Robert startles me at breakfast by asking if my cold - which he has hitherto ignored - is better. I reply that it has gone. Then why, he asks, do I look like that? Feel that life is wholly unendurable, and decide madly to get a new hat'It's not easy being a Provincial Lady in Devonshire in the 1920s, juggling a grumpy husband, mischievous children and a host of domestic dilemmas - from rice mould to a petulant cook. But this Provincial Lady will not be defeated; not by wayward flower bulbs, not by unexpected houseguests, not even by the Blitz. She will continue to preside over the W.I., endure rain-drenched family picnics and succeed as a published author, all the while tending to her strawberries. The Diary of a Provincial Lady is a brilliantly observed comic novel, as funny and fresh today as when it was first written.Widely regarded as one of the funniest English authors and an heir to Jane Austen, E.M. Delafield was born in Sussex in 1890. She took the name Delafield to distinguish herself from her mother (De la Pasture), also a novelist, and wrote over 30 books which could be 'as laugh-out-loud funny as PG Wodehouse' before her death in 1943.

A story of a provincial lady who slogs through the mud of a collective farm, copes with Soviet trains and hotels, and rubs shoulders with robust citizens, at a public beach.

* A delightful and witty celebration of the suburban British housewife