The Diary Of A Provincial Lady Av E.M. Delafield

''January 22nd - Robert startles me at breakfast by asking if my cold - which he has hitherto ignored - is better. I reply that it has gone. Then why, he asks, do I look like that? Feel that life is wholly unendurable, and decide madly to get a new hat''<br><br>It''s not easy being a Provincial Lady in Devonshire in the 1920s, juggling a grumpy husband, mischievous children and a host of domestic dilemmas - from rice mould to a petulant cook. But this Provincial Lady will not be defeated; not by wayward flower bulbs, not by unexpected houseguests, not even by the Blitz. She will continue to preside over the W.I., endure rain-drenched family picnics and succeed as a published author, all the while tending to her strawberries. <br><br><i>The Diary of a Provincial Lady</i> is a brilliantly observed comic novel, as funny and fresh today as when it was first written.<br><br>Widely regarded as one of the funniest English authors and an heir to Jane Austen, E.M. Delafield was born in Sussex i