There is Nancy's "huge Aga, which never went out" and this description of Penelope's activities after she sends Antonia upstairs to soak in a bath: I love the way Rosamunde Pilcher brings together elements of a rather old-fashioned British lifestyle with the modern. "Besides, it didn't really matter being out of date glossy and shiny, it would still be a marvelous treat."
Nancy has few redeeming features, but the line where she buys a magazine at the train station only to find it's last month's makes me feel for her - a person who didn't often do something just for herself: No wonder their children are so miserably unattractive." Why Nancy chose to marry him in the first place is beyond all comprehension. He's always been the most uncommunicative of men. And George, taking refuge The Times, saying nothing. "I imagined her storming back to George in floods of unbecoming tears, unleashing onto him all the iniquities of her feckless mother. Penelope's description of her daughter Nancy after they have an argument is classic:
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