{"product_id":"mrs-tim-gets-a-job-9781912574551","title":"Mrs. Tim Gets a Job","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMiss Clutterbuck would like me to run the bar--no, it can't be that--run the \u003c\/em\u003ecar\u003cem\u003e, which has seen its best days but is still useful for shopping. Grace has told her I am patient and tactful, so (as she herself is neither the one nor the other) she thinks I am the right person to look after the social side.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith husband Tim stationed in Egypt and her children at boarding-school, Hester Christie--affectionately known as \"Mrs. Tim\" and based loosely on D.E. Stevenson herself--finds herself at loose ends, until her friend Grace takes her at her word and finds her a job with the formidable Erica Clutterbuck, who has opened a new hotel in the Scottish Borders.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOnce there, Hester's initial ambivalence disappears in a swirl of problems and situations with hotel guests and old friends alike, including serving as fortune teller at the local f te and aiding and abetting romantic schemes, not to mention the reappearance of the debonair Tony Morley.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume, first published in 1947, is a sequel to \u003cem\u003eMrs. Tim Carries On\u003c\/em\u003e and brings Hester into the immediate post-war years. Her exploits continue in \u003cem\u003eMrs. Tim Flies Home\u003c\/em\u003e. All three titles are back in print for the first time in decades from Furrowed Middlebrow and Dean Street Press. This edition includes a new introduction by Alexander McCall Smith.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"D.E. Stevenson brings back Mrs. Tim after some years' silence, and here she is the same charming, witty woman, a little older, a little wiser but just as busy as ever.\" \u003cem\u003eEdinburgh Evening News\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"It is a delightful book, and long may Mrs Tim flourish \" \u003cem\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Dean Street Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/07\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781912574551\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 222\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.49lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.47d","brand":"D. E. Stevenson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36670467276956,"sku":"9781912574551","price":13.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_ec87e2d4-164d-4346-b77f-cd9df9ff7670.jpg?v=1603922740","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/mrs-tim-gets-a-job-9781912574551","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}