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Book Review, Cluny Brown, Fiction, Humour, Humour and Wit, Lighter-hearted fiction, Margery Sharp, The Nutmeg Tree
It’s re-issue day at last for Margery Sharp, thanks to Open Road Media and some dedicated bloggers who have been raising flags for her for at least a couple of years.
Followers of this blog and most of us new Margery readers know that Jane who blogs from beyondedenrock has done sterling work in helping Margery to reach a new generation of readers. You will find, if you explore that there are reviews to more Margerys, not to mention reviews of various Margery books, from readers around the blogosphere who engaged, this year and last, in Jane’s hosted Margery Sharp day
Go explore Margery – she is a light-touch, light-hearted writer, who writes books which are hugely entertaining, witty, and well-turned in writing craft. Margery can indeed write sharply and incisively; you get the sense she feels warmly towards humanity, but is not at all saccharine.
Cluny Brown and The Nutmeg Tree have both been reviewed on here, so you can follow the links.
They feature two delightfully individual and quirky central characters, and I’m delighted to have met and made friends with Cluny and Julia
When Jane started her championship of Margery on her blog, she was only available, if you were very lucky, as a charity shop find, rumpled and elderly, but at reasonable cost. And, as time went by, and more of us were introduced to the wonderful Margery Sharp, the dwindling copies of Margeriana began to reach eye-watering prices via market-place sellers. I could only find a battered Cluny and a battered Julia-Nutmeg, at reasonable outlay. 
Until now – so have a look at the other titles Open Road Media have released. I trust some of them will make their way on here in due course!
Hurrah! Three cheers for the bloggers getting all these lovely books reprinted! 🙂
Absolutely, it is fantastic. And three cheers for the publishers who respond to the bloggers, and the readers who share their delight in the writing, and, well all of us, for we are joilly good bloggers, for we are jolly good bloggers, for we are jolly good blo ogg ers..and so say all of us!
Well said that woman!!!
Especially as YOU are one of them!
Yay, just bought three of the ebooks.
I LOVE it whenever an author is revived, their books back in print! Nothing like the splendor of the publishing phoenix! And BTW, my copy of Le Grand Meaulnes arrived in the mail today. A doorbell chime, no postman in sight. The delicious mystery of it all!
Oh I’m so pleased you got the Fournier. Perhaps your postie is the shade of Meaulnes!
Perhaps. I just dipped into the first chapter during a little break, and I am enchanted.
Wonderful, you will be reeled in, like a helpless little fish.