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Just so sweet. A young couple in their first year of marriage, “adulting” 1920s style. Watching their pennies (have to have enough to pay their cook and housekeeper 😂), learning to handle disputes, navigating the ups and downs of daily living, and facing everything together with love and tenderness . A portrait of the first year of what will almost certainly be a happy marriage.

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A rather sweet, happy book, about a young couple's engagement and first year, as they settle into marriage and domesticity. There are challenges and some exasperation along the way, but ultimately there's just so much warmth here. Quite lovely and charming.

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Delightful read! Sweet, charming, funny. Though a different time and place, it reminded me a bit of the play/movie Barefoot in the Park.

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So sweet and charming. It evoked memories of my newlywed days, although I don‘t think I was ever quite such a goose as Felicity or my husband as ineffectual as Ian, and of our first house where we were very happily childless for a lot longer than the first year! But I can‘t imagine how we managed without a cook and a maid🤣🤣🤣

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There is something so lovely about this house on Greenery Street and
the endearing young couple and their adventures in their first year of marriage. It‘s left me with a warm feeling, and brought up memories of different houses I‘ve lived in over the years. Another soothing Persephone read. ♥️♥️♥️ #Persephoneclub

A gentle story of a young couple moving into the 1st married home. Felicity + Ian navigate the minor bumps in early life in their 'small' home (worth a look at Walpole St on which it's based!). I was happily esconsed in the small dramas so loved to finale abt Daphne.
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Poor Humphrey! 😂
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A novel of its time certainly, but it evokes a bittersweet nostalgia of early adulting & marriage. There are bits of insight and snort worthy humor that I can now appreciate having passed through that window.

I LOVED the first chapter! So relatable, except we spent 16 years (on a 5 year plan) in our first family home. 😂 I still miss it and wistfully drive by occasionally. #Persephoneclub

This was a charming and wryly witty story of a couple‘s first year of marriage and their first home. The author drew from memories of his own idyllic first year of marriage on “Greenery Street” (Walpole Street in London) and it made me so nostalgic for my first house after marriage. And just like the Greenery Street houses, we bought our old house from owners who were expecting their second child and needed to size up. 😆

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