Minnie’s Room: The Peacetime Stories of Mollie Panter-Downes

This companion volume to Persephone Book No. 8, Good Evening, Mrs Craven , contains ten stories describing aspects of British life in the years after the war. Minnie’s Room itself is about a family who are unable to believe that their maid wants to leave them to live in a room of her own. An elderly couple emigrates because of ‘the dragon out to gobble their modest, honourable incomes.’ The sisters in Beside the Still Waters grumble because ‘Everything is so terribly difficult nowadays.'Mollie Panter - Downes, said the Spectator, 'is discomfortingly good at anatomising the crudities and subtleties of snobbery - but she is never unkind.