Jolly Hockey Sticks!: fly away home, part two

20 February 2009

Why weren't my United flight attendants this jolly?

Have arrived back in Teddington. Will write a proper post soon!

reading 2015

Excellent Women by Barbara Pym
Everyday Style by Lotta Jansdotter
Elegance by Kathleen Tessaro
Etta and Otto and Russell and James by Emma Hooper
Vanessa and Her Sister by Priya Parmar
Ladder of Years by Anne Tyler
Whistling for the Elephants by Sandi Toksvig
A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson
Illyrian Spring by Ann Bridge
The Museum of Things Left Behind by Seni Glaister
Us by David Nicholls
Parisian Chic by Ines de la Fressange
Nella Last's War edited by Richard Broad and Suzie Fleming
First Frost by Sarah Addison Allen
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying by Marie Kondo
The Sleeping Beauty by Elizabeth Taylor
Trouble for Lucia by E.F. Benson
Wilfred and Eileen by Jonathan Smith
Late Fragments by Kate Gross
The Year of Living Danishly by Helen Russell
Christmas at High Rising by Angela Thirkell
A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler
High Rising by Angela Thirkell
The Handsome Man's Deluxe Café by Alexander McCall Smith
Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey
Mr Tibbits's Catholic School by Ysenda Maxtone Graham
Lucia's Progress by E.F. Benson
The Young Ardizzone by Edward Ardizzone

reading 2014

Mapp and Lucia by E.F. Benson
Wigs on the Green by Nancy Mitford
The Provincial Lady in Wartime by E.M. Delafield
The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy by Rachel Joyce
The Peculiar Life of a Lonely Postman by Denis Theriault
Flora by Gail Godwin
Two People by A.A. Milne
The Norfolk Mystery by Ian Sansom
Man at the Helm by Nina Stibbe
My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier
Island Summers: Memories of a Norwegian Childhood by Tilly Culme-Seymour
The Reason I Jump by Naoki Higashida
A Few Green Leaves by Barbara Pym
This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage by Ann Patchett
Lucia in London by E.F. Benson
The Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison Allen
Mrs Harris MP by Paul Gallico
Rooftoppers by Katherine Rundell
Wake by Anna Hope
The Last Runaway by Tracy Chevalier
Perfect by Rachel Joyce
Love, Nina by Nina Stibbe
Still Life With Breadcrumbs by Anna Quindlen
Lost Lake by Sarah Addison Allen
Coronation by Paul Gallico
The Two Mrs Abbotts by D.E. Stevenson
The Examined Life by Stephen Grosz
The Provincial Lady in America by E.M. Delafield
The Provincial Lady Goes Further by E.M. Delafield
The Diary of a Provincial Lady by E.M. Delafield

reading 2013

The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon by Alexander McCall Smith
The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection by Alexander McCall Smith
Instructions for a Heatwave by Maggie O'Farrell
Recipe for Life by Mary Berry
Miss Mapp by E.F. Benson
Our Spoons Came From Woolworths by Barbara Comyns
The Knot by Mark Watson
Little Bones by Janette Jenkins
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
Queen Lucia by E.F. Benson
The Urban Beekeeper by Steve Benbow
The Cleaner of Chartres by Salley Vickers
The Quarter-Acre Farm by Spring Warren
The Sweet Life in Paris by David Lebovitz
Keeping Secrets by Sue Gee
The Swish of the Curtain by Pamela Brown
Flowers on the Grass by Monica Dickens
Patience by John Coates
Madensky Square by Eva Ibbotson
Calling Invisible Women by Jeanne Ray
The House at World's End by Monica Dickens
My Berlin Kitchen by Luisa Weiss
The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
One Pair of Feet by Monica Dickens

reading 2012

Toby's Room by Pat Barker
The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party by Alexander McCall Smith
The Double Comfort Safari Club by Alexander McCall Smith
Tea Time for the Traditionally Built by Alexander McCall Smith
The Report by Jessica Francis Kane
Valentine Grey by Sandi Toksvig
The Miracle at Speedy Motors by Alexander McCall Smith
The Good Husband of Zebra Drive by Alexander McCall Smith
A Rather English Marriage by Angela Lambert
The Solitary Summer by Elizabeth von Arnim
One Pair of Hands by Monica Dickens
Dinner: A Love Story by Jenny Rosenstrach
Provincial Daughter by R.M. Dashwood
Minnie's Room by Mollie Panter-Downes
Little Boy Lost by Marghanita Laski
Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
The Shuttle by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Moorland Cottage by Elizabeth Gaskell
Brook Evans by Susan Glaspell
The Victorian Chaise Longue by Marghanita Laski
Miss Buncle Married by D.E. Stevenson
Mrs Miniver by Jan Struther
Girl Reading by Katie Ward
Meet Me at the Cupcake Cafe by Jenny Colgan
Bricks and Mortar by Helen Ashton
A London Child of the 1870s by Molly Hughes
The Beginner's Goodbye by Anne Tyler
How It All Began by Penelope Lively
A House in the Country by Jocelyn Playfair
The Sweet Dove Died by Barbara Pym
Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym
The Priory by Dorothy Whipple
The Wedding Dress by Carrie Young
The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year by Sue Townsend
Nothing to Do But Stay by Carrie Young
Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee
One Fine Day by Mollie Panter-Downes
Mrs Mike by Benedict and Nancy Freedman
Mennonite in a Little Black Dress by Rhoda Janzen
Mariana by Monica Dickens
Blue Shoes and Happiness by Alexander McCall Smith
In the Company of Cheerful Ladies by Alexander McCall Smith
The Full Cupboard of Life by Alexander McCall Smith
The Worry Week by Anne Lindbergh
A View of the Harbor by Elizabeth Taylor

reading 2011

William--An Englishman by Cicely Hamilton
Lady Rose and Mrs Memmary by Ruby Ferguson
Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian
Princes in the Land by Joanna Cannan
Blaming by Elizabeth Taylor
Greenbanks by Dorothy Whipple
The Novel in the Viola by Natasha Solomons
In a Summer Season by Elizabeth Taylor
Blessings by Anna Quindlen
Good Behaviour by Molly Keane
The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim
The Pajama Girls of Lambert Square by Rosina Lippi
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
The Dirty Life by Kristin Kimball
Lunch in Paris by Elizabeth Bard
The Girl Who Chased the Moon by Sarah Addison Allen
Crampton Hodnet by Barbara Pym
The Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allen
The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin
At Mrs Lippincote's by Elizabeth Taylor
Three Ways to Capsize a Boat by Chris Stewart
Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor
A Lost Lady by Willa Cather
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
Incidents in the Rue Laugier by Anita Brookner
Civil to Strangers by Barbara Pym
The Feast Nearby by Robin Mather
The Soul of Kindness by Elizabeth Taylor
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
How to Be a Bad Birdwatcher by Simon Barnes
Thornyhold by Mary Stewart
The Bad Beekeepers' Club by Bill Turnbull
The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal
Mr Rosenblum's List by Natasha Solomons
The Tortoise and the Hare by Elizabeth Jenkins
A Red Herring Without Mustard by Alan Bradley
Beekeeping by Andrew Davies
A Surrey State of Affairs by Ceri Radford
Hostages to Fortune by Elizabeth Cambridge
Half of the Human Race by Anthony Quinn
The Kalahari Typing School for Men by Alexander McCall Smith
Mrs Harris Goes to Paris and Mrs Harris Goes to New York by Paul Gallico
The Closed Door and Other Stories by Dorothy Whipple
The Blank Wall by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding
They Knew Mr Knight by Dorothy Whipple
The Far Cry by Emma Smith
Morality for Beautiful Girls by Alexander McCall Smith
Tears of the Giraffe by Alexander McCall Smith
Back When We Were Grownups by Anne Tyler
Miss Ranskill Comes Home by Barbara Euphan Todd
Doreen by Barbara Noble

reading 2010

How to Run Your Home Without Help by Kay Smallshaw
The Winds of Heaven by Monica Dickens
The New House by Lettice Cooper
They Were Sisters by Dorothy Whipple
It's Hard to be Hip Over Thirty by Judith Viorst
C'est La Folie by Michael Wright
Ms Hempel Chronicles by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
The Earth Hums in B Flat by Mari Strachan
Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis
Love's Shadow by Ada Leverson
Henrietta Sees it Through by Joyce Dennys
Daddy's Gone A-Hunting by Penelope Mortimer
Operation Heartbreak by Duff Cooper
Carry On, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
Why Shoot a Butler? by Georgette Heyer
Every Last One by Anna Quindlen
Say When by Elizabeth Berg
The Three Weissmanns of Westport by Cathleen Schine
The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
Open House by Elizabeth Berg
Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
Mrs Darcy and the Blue-Eyed Stranger by Lee Smith
The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag by Alan Bradley
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
Less Than Angels by Barbara Pym
The School at the Chalet by Elinor M. Brent-Dyer
The Blessing by Nancy Mitford
Don't Tell Alfred by Nancy Mitford
Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford
The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford
Family Roundabout by Richmal Crompton
Notwithstanding by Louis de Bernieres
The Lost Garden by Helen Humphreys
Telling Tales by Alan Bennett
Private Papers by Margaret Forster
My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
Some Tame Gazelle by Barbara Pym
Corduroy Mansions by Alexander McCall Smith
Greenery Street by Denis Mackail
Committed by Elizabeth Gilbert
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne
To Bed with Grand Music by Marghanita Laski
The Right Attitude to Rain by Alexander McCall Smith
High Wages by Dorothy Whipple

reading 2009

The Lost Art of Gratitude by Alexander McCall Smith
The Comfort of Saturdays by Alexander McCall Smith
The Careful Use of Compliments by Alexander McCall Smith
A Glass of Blessings by Barbara Pym
Heartburn by Nora Ephron
Mrs Tim of the Regiment by D.E. Stevenson
A Kid for Two Farthings by Wolf Mankowitz
Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen
Noah's Compass by Anne Tyler
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
Modern Delight by Various Authors
Delight by J.B. Priestley
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Miss Hargreaves by Frank Baker
The Village by Marghanita Laski
House-Bound by Winifred Peck
The Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison Allen
Henrietta's War by Joyce Dennys
My Life in France by Julia Child
The Personal History of Rachel DuPree by Ann Weisgarber
La's Orchestra Saves the World by Alexander McCall Smith
The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy
Saplings by Noel Streatfeild
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
Dear Julia by Amy Bronwen Zemser
The New Yorkers by Cathleen Schine
Someone at a Distance by Dorothy Whipple
Mr. Bridge by Evan S. Connell
Mrs. Bridge by Evan S. Connell
Astrid and Veronika by Linda Olsson
A Homemade Life by Molly Wizenberg
Miss Buncle's Book by D.E. Stevenson
The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner
No Fond Return of Love by Barbara Pym
The Spare Room by Helen Garner
Consequences by E.M. Delafield
Love Walked In by Marisa de los Santos
Kissing Games of the World by Sandi Kahn Shelton
Liberty by Garrison Keillor
24 for 3 by Jennie Walker
The Wonderful Weekend Book by Elspeth Thompson

reading 2008

The Jewel Garden by Monty and Sarah Don
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Addition by Toni Jordan
Can Any Mother Help Me? by Jenna Bailey
The Good Plain Cook by Bethan Roberts
Good Evening, Mrs Craven: The Wartime Stories by Mollie Panter-Downes
The Making of a Marchioness by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
A Game of Hide and Seek by Elizabeth Taylor
The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter
Fair Play by Tove Jansson
A Far Cry from Kensington by Muriel Spark
The Unbearable Lightness of Scones by Alexander McCall Smith
Eating for England by Nigel Slater
84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
Cherry Cake and Ginger Beer by Jane Brocket
The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
Excellent Women by Barbara Pym
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Diary of a Provincial Lady by E.M. Delafield
The Fortnight in September by R.C. Sheriff
A Piece of Normal by Sandi Kahn Shelton
Can't Wait to Get to Heaven by Fannie Flagg
Pontoon by Garrison Keillor
The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
One Fine Day by Mollie Panter-Downes
Jane and Prudence by Barbara Pym

20 February 2009

fly away home, part two

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