| Title | : | The Bride Comes to Evensford |
|---|---|---|
| Author | : | H.E. Bates |
| Release | : | 2016-01-12 |
| Kind | : | ebook |
| Genre | : | Short Stories, Books, Fiction & Literature |
| Size | : | 6385833 |
| The Bride Comes to Evensford, a novella first published in 1943, follows a woman from her arrival in a small town (modelled on Bates's native Rushden) to her work for a draper, her marriage to him, her increasing command over the business and the household, and finally to her infatuation with a young man as a widow in her fifties. Written and published in the midst of Bates's work for the Air Ministry, but hearkening back in style and subject matter to his pre-war stories, this is a beautiful study of one woman's life, her hopes and disappointments. Philip Toynbee stated that it had "a fine elegant shape, covering with formidable skill a period of thirty years in only twice as many pages...Mr. Bates is a master of restraint...in a period of over-exuberance." |
