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One Fine Day (Virago Modern Classics) | 
 enlarge | Author: Mollie Panter-downes
Publisher: Virago Press Ltd
Category: Book
List Price: £7.99
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 35531
Media: Paperback
Edition: New Ed
Pages: 192
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 4.7 x 0.6
ISBN: 086068587X
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780860685876
ASIN: 086068587X
Publication Date: June 5, 2003
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After the war May 16, 2003
Lynette Baines (Melbourne, Australia)
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
One fine day is the experience of one day in 1946 of Laura Marshall (and to a lesser extent her husband Stephen and daughter Vicky). It's a hot, perfect summer day and Laura's thoughts range over the past and present, particularly the recent past. The war is over and she finds herself "remembering" this fact again and again as she realises that peace has finally come, and the threats of invasion and death have gone. As a middle-class woman whose life has been completely changed by the war, Laura can't help remembering how things used to be - servants at every turn, the garden perfect, her hair not grey, meals appearing on the table without her ineffectual efforts. As Stephen says "All his life he had expected to find doors opened if he rang, to wake up to the soft rattle of curtain rings being drawn back, to find the fires bright and the coffee smoking hot every morning as though household spirits had been working while he slept. And now the strings had been dropped, they all lay helpless as abandoned marionettes with nobody to twitch them." The novel is an elegy for a time before the war, and a recognition of the changes wrought by war, and thankgiving that the family has come through unscathed. It is a beautifully-written evocation of England, a vanished middle-class England long gone to us now, but in 1946, some people (including Laura's mother) hadn't come to terms with the change.
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