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julieclair
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Just so sweet. A young couple in their first year of marriage, “adulting” 1920s style. Watching their pennies (have to have enough to pay their cook and housekeeper 😂), learning to handle disputes, navigating the ups and downs of daily living, and facing everything together with love and tenderness . A portrait of the first year of what will almost certainly be a happy marriage.

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Tamra 😅 😉 I would volunteer to watch my pennies to pay for domestic staff. 1w
jlhammar Definitely see a happy marriage for those two. Wonderful review! 1w
Aimeesue What a lovely floral background! 1w
LeahBergen Lovely review. And I totally foresee a happily ever after for them! 1w
CarolynM Lovely review❤️ 5d
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quietjenn
Greenery Street | Denis George Mackail
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A rather sweet, happy book, about a young couple's engagement and first year, as they settle into marriage and domesticity. There are challenges and some exasperation along the way, but ultimately there's just so much warmth here. Quite lovely and charming.

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Tamra I feel like this is a great spring & summer read! 💛💚 1w
jlhammar Lovely floral pattern 🌸 Yes, so much warmth - great way to describe it! 1w
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quietjenn FYI: the most recent house listing I found for Walpole Street. Just five million plus pounds, but the patio is already paved 😅 https://www.rightmove.co.uk/house-prices/details/england-129722033-19311835?s=26... 1w
willaful Ooo, Vera Bradley! I have so many items in that pattern. 😂 1w
Tamra @quietjenn whew 😅 1w
LeahBergen Thank God it‘s paved. 😆 1w
Cathythoughts Yes , warmth is the word 👍🏻🥰 and the house is only five million plus … a steal 😂 1w
CarolynM Well if the paving‘s already done, that‘s quite a saving🤣 Nice review. 1w
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jlhammar
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Delightful read! Sweet, charming, funny. Though a different time and place, it reminded me a bit of the play/movie Barefoot in the Park.

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willaful Yes! 1w
LeahBergen I‘ve never seen Barefoot the Park. I must rectify that! 1w
quietjenn Great comparison! I loved that movie when I was younger and should probably watch it again. 1w
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CarolynM
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So sweet and charming. It evoked memories of my newlywed days, although I don‘t think I was ever quite such a goose as Felicity or my husband as ineffectual as Ian, and of our first house where we were very happily childless for a lot longer than the first year! But I can‘t imagine how we managed without a cook and a maid🤣🤣🤣

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Centique So difficult! We‘ll just have to have a local woman in a few mornings a week to do for us 😂😂 2w
Tamra How did/do we manage?? 😅 I was thinking the same thing. Though I also don‘t relish the idea of managing “staff” either. 2w
LeahBergen And we didn‘t have an allowance from my father, either. How did we survive?? 😆 Lovely review! 2w
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Cathythoughts Great review ❤️ How did we ever do it 😳😂 2w
willaful The image that best sums up my husband and I is from an underground comic in which someone exclaims, “At last! Someone as wishy-washy as I am!“ 😂 So I definitely related. (edited) 1w
quietjenn Modern life is so hard! At least you never had to worry about the servants drinking all your whiskey. 1w
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Cathythoughts
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There is something so lovely about this house on Greenery Street and
the endearing young couple and their adventures in their first year of marriage. It‘s left me with a warm feeling, and brought up memories of different houses I‘ve lived in over the years. Another soothing Persephone read. ♥️♥️♥️ #Persephoneclub

Tamra Soothing - perfect descriptor. 😊 Somehow you just know all will be well. 2w
Cathythoughts @Tamra Yes! All will be well, that‘s such a good feeling ♥️ 2w
andrew61 Yes I look fondly on our first house Cathy and as our clutter expands exponentially frequently wish we were back there now the girls are slowly drifting to independence. 2w
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Aimeesue Soothing is right! It‘s such a warm book.💙 2w
LeahBergen Ahh, what a lovely photo to go with your review! It made me very nostalgic for our first old house. 🥰 2w
quietjenn Same! 1w
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andrew61
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A gentle story of a young couple moving into the 1st married home. Felicity + Ian navigate the minor bumps in early life in their 'small' home (worth a look at Walpole St on which it's based!). I was happily esconsed in the small dramas so loved to finale abt Daphne.
@LeahBergen @Cathythoughts @rubyslippersreads @quietjenn @Tamra @CarolynM @sisilia @Caryl @daena @elkeOriginal @Gissy @Aimeesue @Bookbuyingaddict @julieclair @willaful #persephoneclub

Tamra “Small” in quotations is right! Doesn‘t sound small to me if you have room for domestic help. I read in a blog online #23 has been divided into units. 2w
Cathythoughts Yes I‘d say not that ‘small‘ 😂 A gentle story 👍🏻 2w
LeahBergen I actually Googled real estate on Walpole (Greenery) Street and would be very pleased to live there even at this “advanced“ point in our marriage. 😆 2w
quietjenn Small dramas in not-actually-small homes. Lovely! 1w
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Aimeesue
Greenery Street | Denis George Mackail
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LeahBergen I‘m going to start using the “bout of influenza” excuse myself! 😆 3w
willaful I loved this part! 3w
Cathythoughts Sounds good 👍🏻🥰 3w
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willaful I even more loved the part later when Felicity was terribly worried that her father had influenza, because he never got sick except on purpose. 🤣 3w
Aimeesue @LeahBergen 😂😂😂 2w
Aimeesue @willaful Yes! 😂 2w
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willaful
Greenery Street | Denis George Mackail
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LeahBergen 😆😆 3w
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Bookbuyingaddict
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#persephonebookclub just starting this one ; with a hot chocolate ☕️ under a snuggly blanket and it‘s June !!!! 😱

Tamra This is the perfect novel for it! It‘s been cool & damp here too. I‘m ready for summer. 3w
Cupcake12 I can‘t believe the weather here either. I put my patio furniture set last week and haven‘t sat outside once 🐾 3w
Cathythoughts I hope you enjoy it. I havnt really got to it yet ♥️ 3w
BarbaraBB It‘s hot chocolate weather here too! 3w
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Tamra
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A novel of its time certainly, but it evokes a bittersweet nostalgia of early adulting & marriage. There are bits of insight and snort worthy humor that I can now appreciate having passed through that window.

I LOVED the first chapter! So relatable, except we spent 16 years (on a 5 year plan) in our first family home. 😂 I still miss it and wistfully drive by occasionally. #Persephoneclub

dabbe Adorable bookmark; is it made of felt? 🤩🤩🤩 3w
Tamra @dabbe it is fabric. 😁 I bought two recently at an Indie bookstore. I love it when stores offer locally made goods. 3w
dabbe @Tamra 😀🤩🤗 3w
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Tamra Lots of unrecognized privilege happening in it! 😏 3w
LeahBergen We spent four years in our first house and I still drive by it, too. I also dream about it all the time! 😆 3w
Tamra @LeahBergen yes! Couldn‘t you step right back in and it wouldn‘t feel like you ever left? We spent so long because we debated forever on the merits of remodeling to accommodate us, but it would have been a money & stress drain. It was a circa 1900 house. (edited) 3w
Cathythoughts Great review. The houses we live in hold so many memories ♥️ haunting. 3w
jlhammar Cute bookmark! Hoping to start soon. 3w
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