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Nothing to Report Kindle Edition

by Carola Oman (Author), Roy Strong (Introduction) Format: Kindle Edition
4.1 4.1 out of 5 stars 159 ratings
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“I have told Rose that there will be a chauffeur for dinner,” she ended, frowning slightly at the cannibalistic sound of her sentence.

Unmarried and nicknamed “Button” by her friends, Mary Morrison is a (very mildly) distressed gentlewoman. She no longer lives in her family home, but remains at the very centre of village life, surrounded by friends including carefree, irresponsible Catha, Lady Rollo, just back from India and setting up lavish housekeeping nearby with her husband and children—socialist Tony, perfect Crispin, and Elizabeth who’s preparing to be presented at Court. Then there’s Marcelle, Mary’s widowed sister-in-law, and her challenging daughter Rosemary, who may soon be planting themselves with her to escape London bombs, Miss Rosanna Masquerier, a historical novelist who might just be a wry self-portrait of the author, and an array of other Sirs and Ladies who rely on Mary’s sympathy and practicality. And perhaps there’s just a hint of romance as well . . .

Known for her bestselling historical fiction, in Nothing to Report Carola Oman delightfully evokes E.M. Delafield’s Provincial Lady in her portrayal of an English village cheerfully, hilariously, and sometimes bumpily progressing from obliviousness to the war’s approach to pulling together for king and country. Dean Street Press and Furrowed Middlebrow have also reprinted Oman’s Somewhere in England, a sequel to Nothing to Report.

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Carola Mary Anima Oman was born in 1897 in Oxford, the second of three children of Sir Charles and Mary Oman. In 1906 she was sent to Miss Batty's School in Park Crescent, Oxford, where she eventually became head girl. In World War One Carola Oman was a probationary VAD nurse at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford. After various nursing appointments during the war, she was discharged in 1919. Her first book, The Menin Road and Other Poems, was published later that year. On 26 April 1922, Carola Oman married Gerald Lenanton, and subsequently devoted most of her writing in the 1920s and 1930s to a series of historical novels, influenced in part by her close friend Georgette Heyer. In the course of a writing career of more than half a century Oman published over thirty books of fiction, history, and biography, among them several historical works for children, and Ayot Rectory (1965), set in the village where she and her husband had settled in a Jacobean manor, Bride Hall. In later years she specialized in historical biography. 1946 saw her prize-winning biography of Nelson, the book on which her reputation as a biographer rests. She was appointed CBE in 1957. After two strokes, Carola Oman died at Bride Hall, Ayot St Laurence, on 11 June 1978.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07SNV1F62
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Dean Street Press; 1st edition (August 5, 2019)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 5, 2019
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1032 KB
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 273 pages
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Rebecca Kuruvilla
5.0 out of 5 stars Lovely book set at the start of World War II
Reviewed in the United States on September 1, 2019
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If you like "Diary of a Provincial Lady", Miss Read or Angela Thirkell you will enjoy this book. Lovely book with detailed descriptions of the daily life and characters in an English town just before and during the early parts of World War II.
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Ginny
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant
Reviewed in the United States on August 12, 2019
Although I am only about half way through, I don't think that anything in the latter half will change my assessment of this brilliantly written book. The characters are superb, the locations are interesting (I love the names of both people and places) and the round of the days leading up to WW II contain enough detail to give us a real feeling for the coming conflict. There is a sequel to look forward to and that is on order. This title is written with typical British dry wit and understated humor. I am so glad that this has been brought back from an undeserved obscurity.

2023 I just reread these two books (the other book SOMEWHERE IN ENGLAND, is about many of the same characters) and I absolutely commend them to anyone who enjoys a very well written and engaging story. I really love rhese books.
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Crop1645
5.0 out of 5 stars Comfortable, engaging village story
Reviewed in the United States on September 7, 2019
As another reviewer wrote, this is a worthy complement to the interwar oeuvre of D. E. Stevenson, Angela Thirkell, Miss Read, etc. Engaging characters, sharply drawn and generally sympathetic. Bought the sequel as soon as I finished it.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Nothing to Report because nothing happens
Reviewed in the United States on March 8, 2021
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None of the characters are likable and none of the "action" or opinions seem well motivated. A series of uninteresting episodes strung together with sudden changes of location. If you want a gentle story about the struggles on the home front during WWII stick with D. E. Stevenson, or Jennifer Ryan. How could a writer who counted Georgette Heyer as a close friend produce such dreck? Not much happens in the books by Angela Thirkel and Miss Read, but at least all their characters are interesting.
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Anne Mustoe
2.0 out of 5 stars The title sums it up!
Reviewed in the United States on June 20, 2021
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This story rambles on telling the tale of a family in 1940's Britain. I read about a third of it before giving up. I kept thinking a plot would develop but it was just like reading the diary of someone who leads a really boring life.
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Holly
2.0 out of 5 stars Poorly written
Reviewed in the United States on August 29, 2019
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This ebook had too many characters, too little description, and was very confusing to follow. The characters were so little developed it was hard to care about them at all.
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Cranky Auntie
4.0 out of 5 stars Stumbling towards wartime
Reviewed in Canada on August 9, 2023
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I wouldn't judge this book as harshly as some of the reviewers here. Carola Oman is not as good as Dorothy Stevenson in the same genre, but Stevenson was unique.

The meandering anecdotes about the upper classes and upper-middle classes of Westbury being relentlessly dragged towards the inevitability of war have an odd kind of charm. I can tell from other reviews that a lot of readers find this style of writing aggravating and boring. Often an outlier when it comes to books, I enjoyed Nothing to Report, but the best contemporary account of life in Britain during the Second World War would have to be Mrs. Tim Carries On by D. E. Stevenson.
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Ellen
4.0 out of 5 stars No drama!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 8, 2022
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Very enjoyable look at England just coming up to WW2. Nothing much happens but an interesting contemporaneous account. The references to gas chambers and gas wagons were unsettling, though.
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JKR
3.0 out of 5 stars Plot Lacking
Reviewed in Canada on September 8, 2019
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While the descriptions of people and landscapes at that time are great, the plot seems to drag. I kept waiting for something (a plot) to happen and nothing really does.....and maybe that's part of the charm of the book
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Amy Reader
2.0 out of 5 stars nohing in this book was interesting
Reviewed in Canada on October 16, 2019
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This book was difficult for me to get interested in. It seemed uninteresting,to the point that the title pretty much matches the content. I would never recommend this book to anyone,very very boring with a fine ending to a hollow story
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R H TAYLOR
4.0 out of 5 stars It was in good nick
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 2, 2019
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Great read
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