Sally on the Rocks by Winifred Boggs5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Part of a curated collection of forgotten works by early to mid-century women writers, the British Library Women Writers series highlights the best middlebrow fiction from the 1910s to the 1960s, offering escapism, popular appeal, and plenty of period detail to amuse, surprise and inform. But in securing her future, Sally must also face her past. ![]() Select the department you want to search in. Sally is a spirited heroine, who is determined to settle into a comfortable life now that she is in her early thirties. Sally on the Rocks: Boggs, Winifred: 9780712353045: Books - Amazon.ca. This entertaining novel is full of acute and humorous observations of male and female attitudes to love and marriage. Little Crampton has its complement of typical villagers the pompous bank manager, the local. Sally aims to win but is distracted by her unsettling emotions for a soldier tortured by his experience at the Front. Winifred Boggs (1874 - 1931) Sally Lunton has led a bohemian lifestyle in Paris, but now at 31 she returns to Little Crampton disillusioned, no job, no money and no hopes for the future except a safe, if loveless, marriage. These two ladies form a quiet alliance, recognizing that the prize isn't really worth fighting over but respecting the other's pursuit of financial security. Dalton, a widow with a young daughter to raise. ![]() Bingley, the bank manager, although she has a rival in Mrs. With some encouragement from the local busybody, she makes a play for Mr. When her bohemian life in Paris falls flat at the beginning of the First World War, Sally Lunton returns to the care of her guardian in Little Crampton to find a husband. ![]()
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