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cimorene1558's review
4.0
My least favourite of the three Merry Hall books (not enough garden), but well worth reading all the same, if you like that sort of thing!
thenovelbook's review
4.0
Re-read, 2021: Enjoyed this just as much as the first time. Oddly struck in some of the chapters by the notion that this is like Winnie the Pooh but with humans. :D I think it's because the characters are so clearly "types," shown off in eccentric, endearing turns, and also because even the tensions and upsets in this lightly fictionalized world are never going to be permanent.
Touched to the heart by the final insight into Miss Mint's characterization. Just as I was the first time through.
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Original review follows:
There was so much to like in this one...the satirical portraits of the neighbors, the loving descriptions of cats and gardens, and the great chapter on discovering art. Still very Wodehousian, and more mellow and kind than the first book of his I read.
These books feel like memoirs or biography while you're reading them, and they are evidently based on the author's real experiences, but they are lightly fictionalized from what I can tell.
Touched to the heart by the final insight into Miss Mint's characterization. Just as I was the first time through.
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Original review follows:
There was so much to like in this one...the satirical portraits of the neighbors, the loving descriptions of cats and gardens, and the great chapter on discovering art. Still very Wodehousian, and more mellow and kind than the first book of his I read.
These books feel like memoirs or biography while you're reading them, and they are evidently based on the author's real experiences, but they are lightly fictionalized from what I can tell.
hazeltine's review
3.0
Not quite as good as the first in the series, but still charming, funny, funny and very British "twee".
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