Recommendations for my next Persephone book?

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Read and loved all Dorothy Whipple, Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, Mis Buncle’s book, The Village, Fortnight in September, The Home-maker, The Crowded Street and the New House.

Any suggestions for others that are similar in tone? Thanks.

Marianne?

Diary of A Provincial Lady, A Lady and Her Husband, possibly National Provincial. Also look at Dean St Press' Furrowed Middlebrow imprint, they have many more D.E. Stevensons.

Thanks. The Furrowed Middlebrow books frequently pop up on my online recommendations. I’ll take a look.

Have you read the two sequels to Miss Buncle's Book - Miss Buncle Married, and The Two Mrs Abbotts?

There's another R C Sherriff novel published by Persephone - The Hopkins Manuscript, which I read earlier this year, and really enjoyed. It's very different from The Fortnight in September.

I'd second The Hopkins Manuscript! Don't be put off by the whole moon crashing into the Earth blurb - its tone is a lot more quiet and domestic and Persephone-like than that would suggest.

Another one you may enjoy is Miss Ranskill Comes Home - the story of a woman who returns to England after being stranded on a desert island during WW2

I read Greengates after Fortnight in September and loved both, but was definitely put off by the blurb on the Hopkins Manuscript! You’ve convinced me to give it a go.

This is one of my favourite Persephone books, (though not a cosy relaxing read, if that's what you're looking for):

'Hilary Wainwright, poet and intellectual, returns after the war to a blasted and impoverished France in order to trace a child lost five years before. The novel asks: is the child really his? And does he want him? These are questions you can take to be as metaphorical as you wish: the novel works perfectly well as straight narrative. It's extraordinarily gripping: it has the page-turning compulsion of a thriller while at the same time being written with perfect clarity and precision.'
persephonebooks.co.uk/products/little-boy-lost-classic

I love The Hopkins Manuscript but I have to say Diary of a Provincial Lady - the title put me off for ages but it was brilliant.

Second Little Boy Lost.

And adding The New House by Lettice Cooper.

Not at Home by Doris Langley Moore

Nothing to Report by Carola Oman