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Sally on the Rocks

Sally on the Rocks

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Number of Chapters: 33

Length: 10 hours and 37 minutes

Language: English

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.. Little Crampton has its complement of “typical” villagers – the pompous bank manager, the local gossip, the ageing parson – but this is spring 1915, and the young men are away fighting and dying in the Great War. Farms and businesses are struggling to exist, families are grieving and there are not many marriage prospects for a spirited, worldly young woman.

Sally's story is told with a mixture of wry humour, cynical observation and bitter anti-war sentiments that make this novel an interesting, emotional but never sentimental view of "English village life". (Summary by Anne Fletcher )

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The new bank manager is a bachelor, and simply rolling (Anne Fletcher)
I am absolutely on the rocks, Lovey (Anne Fletcher)
Isn't there a man called Bingley? (Anne Fletcher)
Gracious, what a husband for 'Mrs Alfred Bingley!' (Anne Fletcher)
You needn't be afraid your nose will ever be put out of joint (Anne Fletcher)
You can put on your boots without a chair (Anne Fletcher)
I hope I don't disturb your rest? (Anne Fletcher)
Wealth lost, something lost; Honour lost, much lost; Courage lost, all lost. (Anne Fletcher)
I am sick of the war (Anne Fletcher)
Stop! ..Oh you little idiot. (Anne Fletcher)
What on earth are you doing here? (Anne Fletcher)
Jimmy, is that the girl you told me about? (Anne Fletcher)
I might have known she would fail me. (Anne Fletcher)
What sort of an Italian tour? (Anne Fletcher)
Won't you give me another chance? (Anne Fletcher)
You are hateful! I wish I hadn't saved you. (Anne Fletcher)
Here's luck to my husband's wife (Anne Fletcher)
I am afraid we are lost, my very dear Miss Sally (Anne Fletcher)
But perhaps bank-managers don't curl? (Anne Fletcher)
Oh, Mr Bingley. what a mercy you are safe! (Anne Fletcher)
I think he's set on not getting better - dying belike, Miss Sally (Anne Fletcher)
Will you stay with me to the end? (Anne Fletcher)
Parson's Sally is to marry Mr Bingley of the bank (Anne Fletcher)
How fond you are of the Mountain! (Anne Fletcher)
After all, what could Mother really know? She wasn't a man (Anne Fletcher)
I am lower than the beasts that perish (Anne Fletcher)
Sally? Sally! (Anne Fletcher)
Then I also give you a week (Anne Fletcher)
Just fancy if there was a divorce in Litte Crampton, Mr Bingley! (Anne Fletcher)
I never guessed there were two of me (Anne Fletcher)
Even the "Soft Job" has got to be paid for (Anne Fletcher)
In the midst of death (Anne Fletcher)
I did some hustle for a husband (Anne Fletcher)
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