{"product_id":"making-conversation","title":"Making Conversation","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0743\/6428\/9071\/files\/Persephone.png?v=1775729186\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eMaking Conversation\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (1931) by Christine Longford (1900-80) was first reprinted in 1970 after the novelist Pamela Hansford Johnson reassessed it in the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. She wrote: ‘This ought to be regarded as an English comic classic, which I suppose, unlike the ravishing \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eCold Comfort Farm\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, it is not. I hope time will redress the neglect.’ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe heroine, Martha, is plain, with curly hair, small eyes which she tries to enlarge in a soulful manner by stretching them in front of the looking glass, and very little chin. She is extremely clever and totally innocent. Her besetting trouble is that she either talks too much, or too little: she can never get right the balance of conversation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e‘This witty book, crisp and dry as a fresh biscuit, is a novel of astonishing subtlety and of a subtlety that is not at all “worked out”. It is native and assured. It is this subtlety that saves \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eMaking Conversation\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e from the imputation of triviality, of being just a “funny novel”. It is about a real girl, for whom we ought to be sorry, but for whom, because of her strength of nature, we are not sorry in the least. She would raise her eyebrows at us if we were.’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEndpaper\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"endpaper-caption\"\u003eEndpapers taken from a 1931 dress silk in a private collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Christine Longford","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44960222707759,"sku":"9781903155738","price":1599.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0743\/6428\/9071\/files\/makingconversation.png?v=1775722000","url":"https:\/\/lunabooks.in\/products\/making-conversation","provider":"Luna Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}