{"product_id":"fanfare-for-tin-trumpets-margery-sharp-9781913527631","title":"Fanfare for Tin Trumpets","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHe also made himself a weekly allowance of five shillings for cigarettes, stationery, amusements, shoe-repairs, razor-blades, laundry, toothpaste, hospitality and 'bus fares; and having thus cut his coat to his cloth, wore it in great content.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe only thing he had not allowed for (and this in an author must surely be considered strange) was Love.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUpon the death of his distant, unaffectionate father, Alistair French, a young store clerk, takes his small inheritance and escapes from the humdrum to a flat in London in order to Write. He and his friend Henry take cheap lodgings in a Paddington boarding-house whose denizens include the spirited, starstruck Winnie Parker, her full-throated mother, who shares Winnie's passion for films if not her admiration for Garbo (\"'Olds 'erself like a sack of potatoes\"), and (generally) an army of Winnie's admirers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut Alistair, faced with the many distractions of Bloomsbury and Bohemia, has considerable trouble getting any writing done. And then there's the biggest distraction of all-a lovely young actress named Cressida who is, to Alistair's chagrin, determined to marry only a man who can further her career. First published in 1932 and out of print for more than 80 years, \u003cem\u003eFanfare for Tin Trumpets\u003c\/em\u003e is one of Margery Sharp's most irresistibly cheerful confections. This new edition features an introduction by twentieth-century women's historian Elizabeth Crawford.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'We can only hope that this charming piece of impertinence will be widely read for its fine sympathy with youth in all its shapes' \u003cem\u003eAngela Thirkell\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Margery Sharp\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1913527638\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781913527631\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Dean Street Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/04\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.49lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.51d","brand":"Margery Sharp","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43993779110143,"sku":"9781913527631","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5fc155c5-cfd1-42b5-ac7e-ae3e2aab5239.jpg?v=1683326262","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/fanfare-for-tin-trumpets-margery-sharp-9781913527631","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}