Mrs. Scarlet's Quaints
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Author: Sophie Cole
Binding: Hardback
Published: Mills and Boon Limited., 1938
Condition:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Tears to DJ, tanning and foxing on end-pages and pages throughout.
Mrs. Scarlot, a widow of fifty, s faced with the problem of how to make a living for herself and two small sons. With daring and humour she opens a shop she calls "Back Numbers" where she sells flannel petticoats and button boots, etc., to the "Quaints" whose wants are ignored by the big shops. Incidentally she makes friends with Trafford Storyan, the middle-aged actor, and the comradeship which drifts into matrimony is depicted with insight and sympathy. Parallel with this middle-age romance is that of Cynthia (Mrs. Scarlot's daughter) who loves, and is loved, by Gilbert who thinks it is his duty to marry Iris, by whom he has had a child. The tragic death at Revenant Manor of Iris, the little cockney girl, is accompanied by sinister and uncanny happenings, and the story ends on a note of mingled pathos and happiness for the middle-aged and youthful lovers.
Author: Sophie Cole
Binding: Hardback
Published: Mills and Boon Limited., 1938
Condition:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Tears to DJ, tanning and foxing on end-pages and pages throughout.
Mrs. Scarlot, a widow of fifty, s faced with the problem of how to make a living for herself and two small sons. With daring and humour she opens a shop she calls "Back Numbers" where she sells flannel petticoats and button boots, etc., to the "Quaints" whose wants are ignored by the big shops. Incidentally she makes friends with Trafford Storyan, the middle-aged actor, and the comradeship which drifts into matrimony is depicted with insight and sympathy. Parallel with this middle-age romance is that of Cynthia (Mrs. Scarlot's daughter) who loves, and is loved, by Gilbert who thinks it is his duty to marry Iris, by whom he has had a child. The tragic death at Revenant Manor of Iris, the little cockney girl, is accompanied by sinister and uncanny happenings, and the story ends on a note of mingled pathos and happiness for the middle-aged and youthful lovers.