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The Four Graces (Miss Buncle Book 4) Kindle Edition

by D.E. Stevenson (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 762 ratings
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No Matter What Life Throws at Them, the Grace Sisters Always Have Each Other

The four Grace sisters—Liz, Sal, Tilly, and Addie—love their quiet life in the country village of Chevis Green. To some, their insular world might seem dull, but the sisters and their father, Mr. Grace, never seem to run out of conversation, jokes, and pleasant ways to pass the time together. They truly are the happiest of families.

That is, until Aunt Rona comes to town. Rona intends to stay with the Graces indefinitely, and her superior, meddlesome attitude immediately sets the sisters' teeth on edge. Throw in another unexpected houseguest, some potential suitors, and a case of mistaken intentions, and the members of the Grace family suddenly find themselves quite out of their element. Will they manage to make it through the summer and return to their quiet ways? Or will their close-knit family change forever?

The Four Graces is another heartwarming tale from D.E. Stevenson, beloved author of Miss Buncle's Book

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"Reading D.E. Stevenson is simultaneously profoundly entertaining and heart-wrenching."

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D.E. Stevenson (1892-1973) had an enormously successful writing career; between 1923 and 1970, four million copies of her books were sold in Britain and three million in the United States.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00HFDVMWK
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Sourcebooks Landmark (July 1, 2014)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 1, 2014
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1200 KB
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 258 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1402274688
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D. E. Stevenson (1892–1973), Dorothy Emily Peploe (married name) was a Scottish author of more than 40 light romantic novels. Her father was the lighthouse engineer David Alan Stevenson, first cousin to the author Robert Louis Stevenson.

2009 saw a renewed interest in Stevenson's books with the reissue of two of her most popular novels, Mrs. Tim of the Regiment (from Bloomsbury) and Miss Buncle's Book (from Persephone Books). The sequel, Miss Buncle Married, was reissued by Persephone in 2011.

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Betty
5.0 out of 5 stars Tall and proud, and a joy from Word One.
Reviewed in the United States on July 6, 2014
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I have never met a D. E. Stevenson novel I did not like, and reread, since I met my first as a freshman in high school. I lost my paperback of this one, so was excited to be able to replace it last week on Kindle. I have to say this may be my favorite: it captures the time (WWII), has a broad band of well-developed characters of both sexes, is touching, and funny--ha-ha, as the girls explained to their father. It is enhanced for devotees of her books, by revisiting a well-known community--but prior knowledge is not necessary to be charmed.
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Kathleen Vincenz
4.0 out of 5 stars A description of a lost England
Reviewed in the United States on August 31, 2014
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The Four Graces are the four daughters of Mr. Grace a minister during World War II. You feel great poignancy reading this knowing that Britain was fighting for the country that D.E. Stevenson was describing but that when they won, they lost it anyway through modernity and industrialization. Too bad. The country she describes is one where young women are free to work, love, and play. Where friends and family are treasured. As someone said, "It is Little Women meets World War II."

As I read it, I had no idea women could work in so many careers. One sister works on the farm and one has enlisted. The other two help the father: one keeps house and the other, the youngest, plays the organ. After I had read it, I stumbled across an article from 1941 in the Guardian about how World War II in England was a greatest time for women's equality.

The book is a sequel to The Two Miss Abbots, and it is amazing how D.E. Stevenson transitions us from the characters in that book to the new characters, the Graces. You can almost see a camera panning away from Jane and Archie at the altar to the Four Graces. Expertly written and plotted all around.

As with all D.E. Stevenson books, I highly recommend it, but I am still partial to Miss Buncle.
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Maggie Church
5.0 out of 5 stars READ, KEEP, AND MAKE GIFTS OF D. E. STEVENSON BOOKS
Reviewed in the United States on November 30, 2015
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If you're interested in good stories with great characters and an absence of gratuitous sex and violence, D. E. Stevenson is the author for you--and for that gift for your grandmother, your aunts, and other discerning readers who don't want the story interrupted with erotica designed for young women who have few outlets for such drivel and the publishers determined to pander to them. The people in Stevenson's books are real, the experiences they go through are real, but there is a spirit of joy and hope and basic goodness that is uplifting. The reader is entertained, frequently unable to put the book down until it's finished, and never bludgeoned by an author's formula or attempts to mold the reader's opinion. Unlike many of today's popular writers, D. E. Stevenson is an author whose books can be read one after the other without boredom or feeling that you're wandering through the same room in the same house over and over and over. Highly recommended for all ages.
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Victoria
5.0 out of 5 stars A Charming Family Story
Reviewed in the United States on September 18, 2014
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The Four Graces
D.E. Stevenson
The four Grace sisters—Liz, Sal, Tilly, and Addie—enjoy a quiet life in the country village of Chevis Green. To some, their self-contained world might seem dull, but the sisters and their father, Mr. Grace, never seem to run out of conversation, jokes, and ways to share chores and pastimes.
Mr. Grace is a pastor and is a gentle man who respects everyone and is a very loving father to his four daughters. He appreciates their different personalities and guides them with kindness.
The Graces have an easy relationship filled with service to their community and to one another. The home is filled with humor, until Aunt Rona comes to town. Rona intends to stay with the Graces indefinitely, but her superior, nosey attitude and her self-centered manipulative ways upset the whole family. They try to tolerate her and treat her with the politeness common in their community, but the pressure builds till one of the Graces has had enough.
Other interesting characters become a part of the Grace’s lives including a quirky house guest and a couple of suitors who misinterpret their standing with Pastor Grace’s daughters. Family members suddenly find themselves in very uncomfortable situations. They want their quiet ways and their close-knit family back.
The story is set in WWII times, but the war is lightly mentioned. I appreciate the clean language and content.
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NBWhitman
3.0 out of 5 stars no Barbara Bunkle
Reviewed in the United States on March 5, 2019
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The story line was good but I was disappointed that more characters from the other books weren't included.
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5.0 out of 5 stars happy
Reviewed in the United States on February 13, 2018
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I chose this rating because I read the other misses buncle's books before and even though this one did not follow in the same contest it gave me the same cozy feeling not all the sisters get married but some do if that is a way to write true happiness but the day-to-day mundane activities we're very interesting it is set in Wartime and as the author notes she did not play that up, but rather concentrated on the more day today lives of individuals that anyone might know regardless of the country Nation Etc nationality you are in they are remarkably out of danger in the wartime era and so I think that accounts for the wag of details of that as many of us are now in this century not in any certain Danger all the time even though we have been at War for several years.
The nuclear bomb that the United States Unleashed pretty much putting into all military Warfare and now it's just threats of complete annihilation of the human race that sets us apart from having an actual or anything else is just Child's Play
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Kilian85710
4.0 out of 5 stars Keep calm and carry on
Reviewed in the United States on October 3, 2015
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War is so inconvenient. That horrible man, Hitler, has reached into every life in Great Britain. What can the people of rural England do but respond with grace and humor? The idea to keep calm and carry on comes from this period, and D E Stevenson lived it herself, trying to keep her own family together while her husband, a member of highland regiment, was often deployed. Instead of losing herself in fear and grief, she watched and learned from the people around her and used what she learned to write wonderful book after book full of amusing, engaging people. People you would want as neighbors. People you would want as friends. Well, not Aunt Rona, but everyone else.

From the gentle parish parson to his four daughters, we come to know and love them all as they cope with the violent changes in their lives occasioned by a madman's activities.
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Neha Negi
4.0 out of 5 stars I enjoyed four graces however it’s not her best work
Reviewed in India on January 14, 2018
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DE STEVENSON is a marvelously and a very under recognized author. Her books are usually women centric and satirical in tone. The humour element is very subtle. I enjoyed four graces however it’s not her best work. I felt this book was a bit too optimistic and could have Had a better ending. This is a story of the Graces mainly Grace sisters set in Chevis Green during the war. However this cannot be called a wartime novel as it hardly has any elements other than clothes coupons and wartime rationing.
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5.0 out of 5 stars One of my very favourite books
Reviewed in Canada on May 26, 2016
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I've loved The Four Graces since I first read it as a teenager, and it has never lost its charm. The characters (with one notable exception) are appealing, and the dialogue between the sisters is hilarious. It's a wonderful, cheerful, comforting book.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Wunderbar leichte Lektüre!
Reviewed in Germany on September 25, 2015
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Die Bücher von D.E.Stevenson waren sehr lange nicht mehr in Druck, werden glücklicherweise aber wieder aufgelegt seit dem unglaublichen Erfolg, den die Wiederauflage von Miss Buncle's Book hatte. Ich habe damals Miss Buncle's Book gelesen und habe dabei große Lust auf weitere Bücher der Verfasserin bekommen, sodass ich dann auch die Folgebände Miss Buncle Married und The Two Mrs. Abbotts gelesen habe. Dann habe ich zufällig als nächstes diese Buch genommen und zu meiner Überraschung festgestellt, dass es ein Nachfolgeband von The Two Mrs. Abbotts ist in der Weise, dass Personen, die im vorherigen Buch wichtige Randfiguren waren, auch in diesem wieder wichtige Randfiguren sind, während die Hauptfiguren in den beiden Büchern völlig unterschiedlich sind und auch kein Zusammenhang zwischen ihnen besteht.
In allen Büchern schildert Stevenson das Alltagsleben alltäglicher Personen in so netter liebevoller Weise, mit gründlicher Beobachtungsgabe und viel Humor, sodass es einfach schön ist, diese Bücher zu lesen. Besonders gut sind ihre Dialoge, sodass sie mich von ihrem Schreibstil her stark an Georgette Heyer erinnert, auch wenn natürlich ihre Bücher ( wie z.B. auch die Krimis von Georgette Heyer) in der Zeit spielen, in der sie geschrieben worden sind.
Dies ist hier die Zeit, in der der 2.Weltkrieg auf sein Ende zusteuerte und sich der Krieg stark auf den Alltag auch der Leute auswirkte, die nicht selbst unmittelbar im Einsatz waren. Der Blickpunkt liegt auf der Familie eines verwitweten Ortspfarrers mit dem schönen Namen Mr. Grace, der mit seinen vier Töchtern zusammen, den four Graces, lebt. Diese führen ein ruhiges zufriedenes Leben, auch wenn es von den kriegsbedingten Einschränkungen gekennzeichnet ist, wie einer schlechten Versorgungslage mit Lebensmittelrationalisierungen, der Zerbombung von Häusern jedenfalls in den Städten u.Ä. Wir begleiten die Familie Grace für einen Sommer; in dem allerlei Beunruhigungen der verschiedenen Art auftreten bis zum guten Ende.
Mit anderen Worten: Es passiert absolut nichts Sensationelles, aber trotzdem ist das Buch angenehm und anregend zu lesen und kein bisschen langweilig, und wenn man es aus der Hand legt, tut man dies -genau wie bei Miss Buncle's Book- mit einem sehr guten Gefühl.
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Lynne Frappier
4.0 out of 5 stars delightful read
Reviewed in Canada on July 15, 2015
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D.E. Stevenson is probably one of my favourite finds in recent years. Her books are witty and well thought out. Her characters are each individual enough that you don't feel as though you're reading the same thing over and over again. An absolute delight of a book. Any fans of Lucy Maud Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables would enjoy these books.
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1.0 out of 5 stars One Star
Reviewed in Canada on February 8, 2016
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