Barbara Buncle has seen her income diminish to the extent that she can hardly survive without doing something drastic to increase her income or decrease her expenditure. Unfortunately, the rear cover of the book is in rough condition (third photo) with significant rubbing. I found myself chuckling at the way people reacted to the book and the ways they tried to plot and plan to expose the author. Featherstone-Hogg actually kidnapped the twins and held them for the ransom of Sarah's signature because they had decided she had written the book, she was ready to shout it from the pulpit in the church!

what would their reaction be and what things would you encourage them to do, would they run off and get married?Miss Buncle is in her late thirties, a perfectly pleasant but rather dull woman, similar in some ways to how I imagine a younger Miss Marple would have looked. There is another reason for DE Stevenson’s appeal, as Aline Templeton points out in her Preface to the book: ‘Oscar Wilde’s Miss Prism, asked about her lost three-volume novel, explained, “The good ended happily and the bad unhappily. She explained, somewhat incoherently, that the character of Mrs Horsley Downs was a horrible character and not in the least like her, but that it was obviously intended for her, because it was exactly like her, and that therefore it was liable and as such ought to be punished to the utmost rigour of the law. and then tries to make sure she doesn't read the book, or talk too much to anyone who has, before he sweeps her away, for fear that she might change her mind when she realizes where his motivation came from. Miss Buncle (alias John Smith)'s book Disturber of the Peace becomes a runaway best seller and in quiet Silverstream chuckles--and shrieks of outrage--are heard.

In Miss Buncle's book, a mysterious boy piper passes through town and his pipe inspires the townspeople to various acts of passion and adventure.Stevenson had an enormously successful writing career: between 1923 and 1970, four million copies of her books were sold in Britain and three million in the States. There are times when you feel like you're just strolling through the village and then there are times you feel you have just run the length of the village twice without stopping. Unfortunately, Miss Buncle had no imagination, so she wrote about her friends – quite kindly and truthfully, of course, for she was a benevolent and veracious soul. The actual books are gorgeous – if you’ve never seen a Persephone book in the flesh, the simple grey cover means the all match on the outside but on the inside each has a different pattern from an appropriate fabric to the period where it was published. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.