Originally published in The New Yorker, Mollie Panter-Downes was the voice of England during the Second World War.

Red-faced, red-handed! Octavia Denison has always known exactly what she wants--that is, until she's caught in a compromising position by brooding former rock s

It is a summer's day in 1946. The English village of Wealding is no longer troubled by distant sirens, yet the rustling coils of barbed wire are a reminder that

J. B. Priestly describes Dorothy Whipple as a "Jane Austen of the Twentieth Century."