{"product_id":"mrs-tim-gets-a-job-paperback","title":"Mrs. Tim Gets a Job - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eD. E. Stevenson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAlexander McCall Smith\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMiss Clutterbuck would like me to run the bar--no, it can't be that--run the \u003c\/em\u003ecar\u003cem\u003e, which has seen its best days but is still useful for shopping. Grace has told her I am patient and tactful, so (as she herself is neither the one nor the other) she thinks I am the right person to look after the social side.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith husband Tim stationed in Egypt and her children at boarding-school, Hester Christie--affectionately known as \"Mrs. Tim\" and based loosely on D.E. Stevenson herself--finds herself at loose ends, until her friend Grace takes her at her word and finds her a job with the formidable Erica Clutterbuck, who has opened a new hotel in the Scottish Borders.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOnce there, Hester's initial ambivalence disappears in a swirl of problems and situations with hotel guests and old friends alike, including serving as fortune teller at the local f te and aiding and abetting romantic schemes, not to mention the reappearance of the debonair Tony Morley.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume, first published in 1947, is a sequel to \u003cem\u003eMrs. Tim Carries On\u003c\/em\u003e and brings Hester into the immediate post-war years. Her exploits continue in \u003cem\u003eMrs. Tim Flies Home\u003c\/em\u003e. All three titles are back in print for the first time in decades from Furrowed Middlebrow and Dean Street Press. This edition includes a new introduction by Alexander McCall Smith.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"D.E. Stevenson brings back Mrs. Tim after some years' silence, and here she is the same charming, witty woman, a little older, a little wiser but just as busy as ever.\" \u003cem\u003eEdinburgh Evening News\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"It is a delightful book, and long may Mrs Tim flourish \" \u003cem\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 222\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.47 x 7.81 x 5.06 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 07, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47248605315321,"sku":"9781912574551","price":17.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/T0ptSHhrRVlJUE8vNU5WTjhQZGMwQT09.webp?v=1768635759","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/mrs-tim-gets-a-job-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}