Amazon.com description: Product Description: Mrs Morland is successful, reasonably contented with her life, and certainly not looking for any romantic complications. She has enough to cope with already, what with problems at her publishers, her secretary's troubles with her elderly mother, and dealing with her youngest son, Tony, passionate about trains to the exclusion of all else. So attempts by well-meaning (and not so well-meaning) friends to promote her good friend George Knox as more than a good friend are unwelcome. Angela Thirkell is the doyenne of light fiction, combining sensitive characterisation with gentle irony, grave absurdity with shrewd observation. She is at her best in HIGH RISING. "Mrs. Thirkell's characterisations are delightful." THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW