Miss Buncle’s Book (Classic edition) Category_Grey Books/Science Fiction John Betjeman in the Daily

John Betjeman in the Daily Telegraph called it ‘a really talented first novel

quirky but straightforward

Morgan has married and had two children

so as to unite a good figure with proper economy

’ observes Eva Hoffman in her Preface

Miss Buncle’s Book (Classic edition) Category_Grey Books/Science Fiction John Betjeman in the DailyPREFACE BY ALINE TEMPLETON 352pp ISBN 9781906462574 The storyline of Miss Buncle's Book (1934) is a simple one: Barbara Buncle, who is unmarried and perhaps in her late 30s, lives in a small village and writes a novel about it in order to try and supplement her meagre income. In this respect she is at one with Miss Pettigrew and Miss Ranskill, two other unmarried women who, not having subsumed their existence into that of a man, have to find a way of