Business as usual
Oliver, Jane2020
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This is a delightful illustrated novel in letters from Hilary Fane, an Edinburgh girl fresh out of university who is determined to support herself by her own earnings in London for a year, despite the mutterings of her surgeon fiancee. After a nervous beginning looking for a job while her savings rapidly diminish, she finds work as a typist in the London department store of Everyman's (a very thin disguise for Selfridges), and rises rapidly through the ranks to work in the library, where she has to enforce modernising systems on her entrenched and frosty colleagues. Business as Usual is charming: light, intelligent, heart-warming, funny, and entertaining. It's deeply interesting as a record of the history of shopping in the 1930s, and also fascinating for its unflinching descriptions of social conditions, poverty and illegitimacy.
Business as usual / Jane Oliver & Ann Stafford.
Oliver, Jane, authorStafford, Ann (Novelist), author
Reading : Handheld Press, 2020.©1933
266 pages ; 22 cm.
Handheld classic ; 14
Originally published: 1933.
9781912766185 (paperback)
823.912
English
371545
Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
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Beaumaris Library | Adult Fiction - General | OLIV | Available |