Mariana Gift Wrapping:Cambridge Imprint paper it later formed the basis

it later formed the basis of the best-selling book

opened my eyes and saw him standing there

But all the characters and their relationships with each other are so lovingly portrayed that one cares passionately what happens even to the unpleasant ones

Most of us here are human godwits

As Polly Toynbee points out in her new Persephone Preface

Mariana Gift Wrapping:Cambridge Imprint paper it later formed the basisPREFACE BY HARRIET LANE 400pp ISBN 9780953478019 We chose to publish Mariana because we wanted a novel like Dusty Answer, I Capture the Castle or The Pursuit of Love, about a young woman encountering life and love, which is also funny, readable and perceptive; it is a 'hot water bottle' novel, one to curl up with on the sofa on a wet Sunday afternoon. 'Mariana is one of my favourite books', Jilly Cooper told us. 'I adored it when I was young and am