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A satire of middle-class prudery and closed-minded cruelty
a devout Catholic (whereas Patience is a rather unthinking Catholic
Family life in a conventional sense is non-existent here: the heart of each story is usually the relationship between one parent and a child
It is the extra ten minutes in bed in the morning
which is still in print in America) and the first ‘pony’ book (first in the sense that the focus was on a pony-mad girl rather than a horse or pony)
Making Conversation Category_Grey Books/Diaries A satire of middle-class pruderyPREFACE BY RACHEL BILLINGTON 288pp ISBN 9781903155738 Making Conversation (1931) by Christine Longford (1900 80) was first reprinted in 1970 after the novelist Pamela Hansford Johnson reassessed it in the Times Literary Supplement. She wrote: This ought to be regarded as an English comic classic, which I suppose, unlike the ravishing Cold Comfort Farm, it is not. I hope time will redress the neglect. The heroine, Martha, is plain, with curly hair,