{"product_id":"the-demon-in-the-house-volume-2-9781504092876","title":"The Demon in the House: Volume 2","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn 1930s England, a beleaguered mother frets over her twelve-year-old's \"skirmishes with the grown-up world and his schoolmasters . . . amusingly told\" (\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLaura Morland loves her son, Tony, unconditionally . . . even when he's talking everyone's ear off, accidentally breaking a window, shelling peas in the bathtub, or desperately trying to convince her to buy him a bicycle--the thought of which terrifies her. And of course Laura cherishes their time together when Tony's home on break, while secretly counting the minutes until he goes back to school . . . \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis twentieth-century tale set in Anthony Trollope's beloved Barsetshire is a lighthearted and sharp-witted look at the life of the upper class in prewar England, and a funny portrait of the fraught relationship between a long-suffering mother and a demanding, rambunctious, and occasionally infuriating twelve-year-old boy. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for Angela Thirkell and the Barsetshire novels\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Thirkell writes in a charmingly easy and intimate style.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[Thirkell's] writing celebrates the solid parochial English virtues of stiff-upper-lippery, good-sportingness, dislike of fuss, and low-key irony. . . . Light, witty, easygoing books.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAngela Thirkell (1890-1961) was a British author whose ability to produce one book a year, every year, and \u003ci\u003eset \u003c\/i\u003ein that year blurred the lines between novelist and social historian. Like so many of the writers that she admired--Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, George Eliot--Thirkell shared their X-ray vision: an unmatched ability to assess the hypocrisies, desires, and prejudices of her characters and, better still, play them for laughs. Her biggest literary project, the Barsetshire Chronicles, consists of twenty-nine novels, each acting as another slice of English country life; a utopian vision of bucolic countryside, grand manors, and village f?tes.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Open Road Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50871741055250,"sku":"9781504092876","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c3aaf4cd-30bc-4f06-ab43-07a9247ac3d7.jpg?v=1737849265","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-demon-in-the-house-volume-2-9781504092876","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}