# The Headmistress

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- Book: [The Headmistress](https://www.bookquiver.com/angela-thirkell/the-headmistress) ([The Headmistress.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/angela-thirkell/the-headmistress.md))
- Authors: [Angela Thirkell](https://www.bookquiver.com/angela-thirkell)
- Publisher: virago
- ISBN: 978-03-4900-747-2
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2016-11-17
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Barsetshire in the latter years of the Second World War is a peaceful and gossipy place, but there has been one lively change. A girls' school, evacuated from London, has taken over Harefield Park. Miss Sparling seems to be the perfect headmistress: she dresses as a headmistress should and is an easy and erudite conversationalist. Her new neighbours like her and her pupils respect her, but there is something missing from her life; something which - though she never dreamt it when she arrived - perhaps Barsetshire can provide...