This week's acquisitions

I had the most amazing batch of post on Tuesday this week, from the extremely kind Fleur Fisher (do check out her blog which has lots of wonderful reviews and frequently mentions Virago Modern Classics). A few weeks ago she sent me a list of her VMC duplicates and asked if there were any that I would like - silly question! I let her know which ones I was missing, and very soon four packages had arrived containing all of these lovely books. Isn't she amazing?



A note in music (Lehmann)
A crowded street (Holtby)
The ante-room (O'brien)
Mary Lavelle (O'Brien)
Madame de Tremaynes (Wharton)
Indifferent heroes (Hocking)
The age of innocence (Wharton)
The lacquer lady (Tennyson Jesse)
Losing battles (Welty)
Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow (Eldershaw)

A few of them I have read already, A crowded street, A note in music and The ante-room; I thought I had read Mary Lavelle, but I hadn't, so that was my first read (review coming up shortly, although I have a bit of a backlog of reviews to post!). Which of these do you recommend? I am most keen to read The Lacquer Lady, having loved A pin to see the peepshow.

I have one little plea to my readers too. Mary Hocking's Indifferent heroes is actually number two in a trilogy, following on from Good daughters which I have been desperate to read for a while. I won't be able to read Indifferent Heroes until I've read Good daughters so I was wondering if anyone had a spare copy they would like to lend or donate to the cause?

I did have another acquisition this week, the latest VMC from Virago, but I'll save writing about that for next week :)

*PS: If you are wondering like I did, how she has so many duplicates, it is a combination of the fact that her fiance is trained to spot VMCs and brings them home, and her inability not to "rescue" Virago books otherwise consigned to pulping. Either way, it's a policy which has been very much to my advantage!