Private Enterprise — Angela Thirkell

With these latest releases of two of Angela Thirkell's novels, eager fans can return to the playful, aristocratic personalities of Barsetshire, England. In these stories of the post-World War II era, the characters of the imaginary county adjust to life during peacetime.

Shortages and rationing continue after the war has ended, and the citizens of Barsetshire are weary of "the boringness of public events". But when two eligible young women take up residence in a cottage at Southbridge, they create a stir among the bachelors and matchmakers of Angela Thirkell's fictional world of town and country.