Never too Late

A picturesque community in postwar England comes together when it counts in this witty, moving novel in the "e;beloved"e; Barsetshire series (Publishers Weekly).Edith Graham is still single when she returns from America to visit Mrs. Morland, and there's no shortage of interested men-until three suitors find each other such good company that they start socializing together and ignoring her.

Meanwhile, Mrs. Morland has received a marriage proposal herself and needs to let the dear man down gently.

But while these day-to-day problems preoccupy the two women and their Barsetshire neighbors, they will soon be united by a poignant loss . . . "e;Here are the familiar cross-county conversations, the disentangling of relationships, the good pieces of meddling and the criticisms and comments that embroider this ever-unfolding panorama of English life."e; -Kirkus Reviews"e;Thirkell writes in a charmingly easy and intimate style."e; -The New York Times"e;Her writing celebrates the solid parochial English virtues of stiff-upper-lippery, good-sportingness, dislike of fuss, and low-key irony. . . . Light, witty, easygoing books."e; -The New Yorker