The sort of book about which you can legitimately go "quietly mad"
and on your enthusiasm sell many copies. Mrs. Miniver's acute
perception, her amusing examination of external things, her happy
pursuit of a stray thought, her unexpected turn of phrase, make
this a subtler joy than With Malice Toward Some. This is the rapier
thrust rather than the bludgeon, the lifted eyebrow rather than the
mugging, the quiet friendliness rather than the over-hearty slap on
the back. Not fiction in the literal sense, for there's no plot,
merely a chronological succession of sketches during two years of
her life. There are interludes such as the return to London after
the holidays, the new car, Christmas, the countryside, Scotland,
gas masks, at the dentist's, a trip abroad, - each one effortless,
appealing, and delightful for the personal note in the mental
ramblings. One enjoys the quality, the characters, the observant
freshness brought to bear on trivia. No need to introduce Mrs.
Miniver as another Provincial Lady. She'll soon stand on her own
right, as a genial, keen Englishwoman, and will make her own
staunch friends. You may gather that we liked it! (Kirkus Reviews)
Shortly before the Second World War, a column by 'Mrs Miniver'
appeared in THE TIMES, the first of many recounting the everyday
events of a middle-class Chelsea family: Mrs Miniver's thrill at
the sight of October chrysanthemums; her sense of doom when the
faithful but rackety car is replaced; the escapades of Vin, Toby
and Judy, her unpredictable young children; visits to the Kent
cottage and, as war becomes a reality, the strange experience of
acquiring gas masks and the cameraderie of those unsettling early
days. Mrs Miniver enchanted the public with her sympathy and
affectionate humour, capturing ordinary lives and values now
darkened by war. First published in book form in 1939 and later an
enormously successful film, MRS MINIVER became a bestseller on both
sides of the Atlantic -- with Churchill exclaiming that it had done
more for the Allied cause than a flotilla of battleships.
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