BraveLittleTailor: These short stories, written during the war years, encapsulate the daily ennui and narcissistic pains endured by a certain class of Londoners and country landowners during those four years of social upheaval. More well known as a journalist and the author of the New Yorker's "Letter from London" from the beginning of the war through the 1980s, Panter-Downes is a British author said by some to be too British for the Brits. She is a master of understatement and constructs each story in this collection with amazing precision.… (lisätietoja)