Lady Rose & Mrs Memmary
Lady Rose & Mrs Memmary by Ruth Ferguson
Persephone book NO. 53
birthday gift from -
heaven_ali
Rating - 10/10
Like Miss Pettigrew, this 1937 novel is a fairy tale for grown-ups, but one 'with an uneasy crash into social reality.' Lady Rose Targenet, later created the Countess of Lochlule, marries Sir Hector, owner of the estate next to 'Keepsfield', the palatial Scottish mansion where she lives. But one day she meets someone on a park bench in Edinburgh... 'It's a little book about dreams and the hard world of money and position and their relations to one another. It's also a love story and a love letter - to Scotland' (Candia McWilliam). The Guardian called Lady Rose and Mrs Memmary 'a curious, affecting confection of high Scots romance and social realism.' It was a great favourite of Queen Elizabeth, later the Queen Mother.
I thoroughly enjoyed this, Mrs Memmary tells the story of Lady Rose to a young woman, Helen Dacre, who stumbles upon Keepsfield while on a day trip with her husband & friends. Keepsfield had been Lady Rose's family home. A story of conventionial life in the upper echelons of Scottish aristocracy until on the death of her husband when she is 29, a cold austere man, Rose marries a young accounts clerk & her life changes dramatically. Helen never finds out who Mrs Memmary is, thinking she is just the old caretaker at Keepsfield but the author makes us privy to the secret. Wonderful!!
Persephone book NO. 53
birthday gift from -
heaven_ali
Rating - 10/10
Like Miss Pettigrew, this 1937 novel is a fairy tale for grown-ups, but one 'with an uneasy crash into social reality.' Lady Rose Targenet, later created the Countess of Lochlule, marries Sir Hector, owner of the estate next to 'Keepsfield', the palatial Scottish mansion where she lives. But one day she meets someone on a park bench in Edinburgh... 'It's a little book about dreams and the hard world of money and position and their relations to one another. It's also a love story and a love letter - to Scotland' (Candia McWilliam). The Guardian called Lady Rose and Mrs Memmary 'a curious, affecting confection of high Scots romance and social realism.' It was a great favourite of Queen Elizabeth, later the Queen Mother.
I thoroughly enjoyed this, Mrs Memmary tells the story of Lady Rose to a young woman, Helen Dacre, who stumbles upon Keepsfield while on a day trip with her husband & friends. Keepsfield had been Lady Rose's family home. A story of conventionial life in the upper echelons of Scottish aristocracy until on the death of her husband when she is 29, a cold austere man, Rose marries a young accounts clerk & her life changes dramatically. Helen never finds out who Mrs Memmary is, thinking she is just the old caretaker at Keepsfield but the author makes us privy to the secret. Wonderful!!