29. Jocelyn Playfair — A House in the Country
Poster produced as part of a series of three UK “Home Publicity” posters, 1939 (the others read “Keep Calm and Carry On” and “Freedom Is in Peril. Defend It With All Your Might“)
In this week’s episode we discuss Jocelyn Playfair’s A House in the Country. Written in 1944—when an Allied victory was still far from certain—the story is set at Brede Manor, a fine Georgian house that is hosting displaced wartime lodgers. The novel is a lovely elegy on the human experience and finding meaning in strange, dark times. In other words, highly relatable.
Discussed in this episode:
A House in the Country by Jocelyn Playfair
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