Making Conversation – Christine Longford
Posted in Fiction - Light on Aug 6th, 2010
This is another of my Persephone purchases. Here’s the blurb … Making Conversation(1931) by Christine Longford (1900-80) was first reprinted in 1970 after the novelist Pamela Hansford Johnson reassessed it in the Times Literary Supplement. She wrote: ‘This ought to be regarded as an English comic classic, which I suppose, unlike the ravishing Cold Comfort [...]