{"product_id":"one-fine-day-paperback","title":"One Fine Day - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMollie Panter-Downes\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eElisa Gabbert\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e It's a summer's day in 1946. The English village of Wealding is no longer troubled by distant sirens, yet the rustling coils of barbed wire are a reminder that something, some quality of life, has evaporated. Together again after years of separation, Laura and Stephen Marshall and their daughter Victoria, are forced to manage without \"those anonymous caps and aprons who lived out of sight and pulled the strings.\" Their rambling garden refuses to be tamed, the house seems perceptibly to crumble. But alone on a hillside, as evening falls, Laura comes to see what it would have meant if the war had been lost, and looks to the future with a new hope and optimism.   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e First published in 1947, this subtle, finely wrought novel presents a memorable portrait of the aftermath of war, its effect upon a marriage, and the gradual but significant change in the nature of English middle-class life. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMollie Panter-Downes\u003c\/b\u003e (1906-1997) wrote her first novel, a huge bestseller, when she was only seventeen. She went on to find a more enduring literary fame as a writer for \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, which published over 850 individual pieces of her coverage of the British home front in WWII. Unfairly overlooked for many years, save for a valiant campaign by Persephone Books (UK), which published two volumes of her wartime writing, Mollie is long overdue a revival. \u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 184\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.2 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 06, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44378874282086,"sku":"9781454959540","price":25.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/KX33DCkFiR9781454959540.webp?v=1768912534","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/one-fine-day-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}