Agatha S Aunt

New York Times - bestselling author Helen Simonson returns with a splendid historical novel full of the same wit, romance and insight into the manners and morals of small-town British life as her beloved Major Pettigrew's Last Stand. It's the summer of 1914 and life in the sleepy village of Rye, England is about to take an interesting turn. Agatha Kent, a canny force for progress, is expecting an unusual candidate to be the school's Latin teacher: Beatrice Nash, a young woman of good breeding in search of a position after the death of her father. (Never has there been a woman Latin teacher.) Agatha's nephews, meanwhile, have come to spend the summer months, as always, both with dreams of their own: Daniel, the poet, to publish a literary journal in Paris, and Hugh, to graduate from medical studies and marry his surgeon's daughter thus inheriting a lucrative practice. But then Hugh is sent to pick up Beatrice from the train station and life, of course, changes. As with Major Pettigrew's Last Stand, the quintessential English village becomes the stage on which entrenched tradition, class, ignorance, family ties and love play out. Here, these characters and others we come to love and root for become characters we hope and pray for when the shadow of the Great War looms ever closer to home.

'Agatha's Aunt' is one of Harriet Lummis Smith's finest works. Originally published in 1920, the book follows young Agatha Kent, who becomes her family's sole provider. She must care for herself, her brother, and an old spinster. Agatha struggles with how to make ends meet, though she is a resourceful young woman who will do anything to make ends meet. She decides to rent out her room to a blind man, under the belief that he'd be fine with the shabby room, because he won't be able to see the water damage, or the wallpaper peeling off the wall. And she decides to pull a long con - pretending to be her great-aunt. She tries her best to keep up the pretense of being the old lady for as long as possible, until romantic complications threaten to mess up her plans. It is a fun book, engaging, and entertaining.

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When 19-year-old Agatha Kent suddenly finds herself the sole provider for her family (consisting of herself, her teenage half-brother and a penniless spinster she's adopted), she's at a loss as to how she is going to make ends meet.But bright and resourceful Agatha is never at a loss for long. She rents out her unacceptably shabby guestroom to a blind man ("He can't see that the paper is peeling off the wall!") and assumes the role of her own great-aunt ("Let him keep his illusions, poor soul!") to take care of him. A lively, opinionated young woman impersonating an old lady - what could possibly go wrong? When romantic complications ensue and threaten to derail her scheme, no-one is more surprised than Agatha. Will she be able to keep up the pretense or will her feelings get in the way?An old-timey romp that will leave you in stitches. First published in 1920, it is now finally back in print, as funny and refreshing as ever.

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Excerpt from Agatha's Aunt It was too early in the season for lowered shades or closed shutters. The spring sunshine had taken possession of the big, many-windowed room, repaying the hospitality as other uninvited guests have been known to do, by its indiscreet revelations. In rooms much lived in, a rather endearing shabbiness is a familiar characteristic, suggestive, like a thumbed book, of homely comfort. The room in question had passed this stage and reached the shabbiness eloquent of poverty. The paper on the walls was faded, and stained from a leak in the roof. The original carpet had been transformed into a rug that shrank annually and now showed threadbare areas, prophetic of gaping holes in the near future. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.