Miss Mole

E.H. Young

'Young is a sharp and funny writer with a brilliant eye for moral fudging and verbal hypocrisy and she has a splendid foil in Miss Mole' Sally Beauman

WINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLACK MEMORIAL PRIZE

'Who would suspect her sense of fun and irony of a passionate love for beauty and the power to drag it from its hidden places? Who would imagine that Miss Mole had pictured herself at different times as an explorer in strange lands as a lady wrapped in luxury and delicate garments?'

Miss Hannah Mole has for twenty years earned her living precariously as a governess or companion to a succession of difficult old women.Now aged forty a thin and shabby figure she returns to Radstowe the lovely city of her youth. Here she is if not exactly welcomed at least employed as housekeeper by the pompous Reverend Robert Corder whose daughters are sorely in need of guidance. But even the dreariest situation can be transformed into an adventure by the indomitable Miss Mole. Blessed with imagination wit and intelligence she wins the affection of Ethel and her nervous sister Ruth. But her past holds a secret that if brought to life would jeopardise everything.

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