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Let me recommend you a cosy Elizabeth Goudge book

Let me recommend you a cosy Elizabeth Goudge book:

teabooksandsweets:

I have made a new quiz with Elizabeth Goudge recs as the result. This time, I included eight of her books that I consider to have the cosiest, most rural, cottage-y settings, so to speak. I did not include the Eliot trilogy, because I always recommend them the most, regardless of other factors. Have fun!

What a lovely quiz! I seriously want to live inside some of those pictures. Linnets and Valerians was my result, which I’m delighted by because it sounds like a lovely book. I’ve no idea whether this is accurate at all but on first impressions it gives me the same sort of vibes as The Phoenix and the Carpet.

“As this world becomes increasingly ugly, callous and materialistic, it needs to be reminded that the…”

“As this world becomes increasingly ugly, callous and materialistic, it needs to be reminded that the old fairy stories are rooted in truth, that imagination is of value, that happy endings do, in fact, occur, and that the blue spring mist that makes an ugly street look beautiful is just as real a thing as the street itself.”

- Elizabeth Goudge.