Barsetshire gathers to celebrate a milestone birthday at the Old Bank House in this conclusion to the much-loved, long-running series.
A home is saved from destruction, a budding romance takes steps toward the altar, a doctor experiences the return of a former loveand the fine people of Barsetshire make plans for a festive extravaganza to mark Mrs. Morlands seventieth birthday . . . Triumphantly completed by Angela Thirkells close friend C. A. Lejeune after Thirkells death, Three Score and Ten features a host of new and old friends from the authors acclaimed series spanning decades of English country life (The New York Times).
Her writing celebrates the solid parochial English virtues of stiff-upper-lippery, good-sportingness, dislike of fuss, and low-key irony. . . . Light, witty, easygoing books. The New Yorker
Where Trollope would have been content to arouse a chuckle, [Thirkell] is constantly provoking us to hilarious laughter. . . . To read her is to get the feeling of knowing Barsetshire folk as well as if one had been born and bred in the county. Kirkus Reviews
