"...we are living ourselves under a Government as bad as any
in history in its combination of bullying and weakness, its bid for
the mob's suffrages, its fawning upon unfriendly foreigners who despise it,
its effort to crush all personal freedom."
She was writing about England in 1946, but might as well have been describing America in 2010.
The author? Angela Thirkell, whose post-war novels were full of the despicable exploits of Them, who harassed a war-battered citizenry with bureaucratic nonsense, meddling into things about which They knew nothing and general mischief done just because They could.
It's a rare thing for a comedy of manners to send a shiver down your back.
2 comments:
Wow! She's good! I love it! I also love your follow up, Sal! Sounds like something she would write. :^)
I know- I'm OD'ing on the new ones I ordered from Alibris.
Her style is probably seeping into mine!
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